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This is a very effective and affecting suffrage film released shortly before women got the vote. It paints suffragists in a positive light. They are shown as respectable and attractive.

This newspaper article from 1916 documents the new and increasing stigma around fat bodies. As ready-to-wear clothes replaced hand-sewn clothing thanks to standardized sizing, people with larger bodies were locked out of this progress due to…

An "Anti" (the term used for those against suffrage) film from 1912 portraying suffragists dressed as men and gambling. The implication was that if women got the right to vote they would become manly and, further, emasculate men. There was a fear…