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Go Get Mother's Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists
who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives,
mothers, and homemakers. American suffragists battled an intense
fight against the idea that women in America could not engage in
politics without also creating a great void in the home. It was
believed that if women allowed this void to occur, the decline and
decay of the home life would destroy 19th and 20th century society.
Men could not help women fill the role of homemaker, as it was
thought that men had neither experience nor the ability to learn
the order and method of caring for home and children. The family
framework known by Victorians remained doomed. However, to counter
this concept, suffragists created a new woman who functioned in
both the home and the public world. All of their suffrage materials
showed that these women did not forget their responsibility to the
home. Everything they used encompassed the right of suffrage and
maintained the image of the dutiful wife and mother. By combining
the forces of material culture and suffrage, this work will further
the study of women's suffrage and expand knowledge of women within
both political and domestic spheres.
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