Suffrage Supporters
Puck often found itself on the supporting side of suffragists. Often, the humor magazine presented cartoons that would have fit very well on either the pages of The Suffragist or the Woman’s Journal. “Revised” appeared in the magazine in April, 1917. The cartoon features an allegorical, classical figure wielding a scroll and a pen. The wall reads “Woman’s sphere is the home,” with the home crossed out and replaced with “wherever she makes good.” The woman holds a list of places where woman’s place could be: the home, the law, industry, the school, the stage, business, the arts. The cartoon suggests that woman has revised her position relative to society, which fits very much into the suffragists’ suggestion that granting women the vote would not be radical, but rather a change that has, in large part, already occurred. Woman already exerts influence on all of these parts of society, the vote would only empower her to do so more efficiently.
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