TM: Hulton Archive of Imprisoned Suffragettes waving and displaying cards as a form of protest
In between the 18th and 19th centuries, suffragettes from both Europe and the United States have experiences of being imprisoned for their movement of demanding voting rights in the public domains. Following the parade strikes that took place in New York, 1917, a group of women demanded voting rights with banners in front of the White House was sentenced as prisoners in the workhouse. Specifically, European Suffragettes in London demonstrate their resilience through a series of vandalism protests and was imprisoned with inhumane discrimination and painful treatments in 1909.
The media is a photograph depicting imprisoned suffragettes demonstrating their resilience to the situation and the injustices they received from the government. The message that they were conveying is not detailed from the image, but their physical presence of demanding attention from the public even in hardships is another form of protest that calls for justice against the governmental authorities.
Elements in this protest involve the press, which is responsible for disseminating these suffragettes' imprisoned situations and statements under oppression to the public. Not only voting rights, the imprisoned suffragettes demanded freedom, gender equality, and acceptance from the world. When the world is not globally-connected, suffragettes around the world demonstrated their resilience against unhealthy gender discriminations in the most innate human interactions of direct expressions.