Cartooning The Women's Vote

A DigitalNZ Story by Jane

Cartoons over time about women voting

new zealand, suffrage, cartoons, vote, politics

Image: Purification suffrage cartoon

Purification suffrage cartoon

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Image: Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932:Womens' Vote. She that is to be obeyed. The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal 30 September 1893.

Hunter, Ashley John Barsby, 1854-1932:Womens' Vote. She that is to be obeyed. The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal 30 September 1893.

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Here's your clean shirt with suffrage celebrations thrown in for free...Auckland Star, 19 September 1984.

Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Here's your clean shirt with suffrage celebrations thrown in for free...Auckland Star, 19 September 1984.

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Cartoon against women's suffrage

Cartoon against women's suffrage

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Image: Michael: ' A mouse, is it. Begorra, I thought it was a tiger escaped from the menagerie. Well, Mary Jane, you've got your vote and your women's rights : now kill your own blooming mice.' (Observer, 17 February 1894)

Michael: ' A mouse, is it. Begorra, I thought it was a tiger escaped from the menagerie. Well, Mary Jane, you've got your vote and your women's rig...

National Library of New Zealand

Image: "After you've used me for sex and had your meal, will you let me go and exercise my right to a democratic free and fair vote in the Afghan election?" 20 August 2009

"After you've used me for sex and had your meal, will you let me go and exercise my right to a democratic free and fair vote in the Afghan election...

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Blomfield, William, 1866-1938 :The result of the dose - Liberals, 54; Conservatives, 14!! It did him good!!! Our cartoons, No. X. Supplement to the New Zealand times, December 2, 1893.

Blomfield, William, 1866-1938 :The result of the dose - Liberals, 54; Conservatives, 14!! It did him good!!! Our cartoons, No. X. Supplement to the...

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Henshaw, David, 1939-2014 :"You're too late, the voting papers are posted... an' you voted for three feminists and the sitting lady mayor!" from Jock's Country Life calendar published in 2001 (November page).

Henshaw, David, 1939-2014 :"You're too late, the voting papers are posted... an' you voted for three feminists and the sitting lady mayor!" from Jo...

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Image: HISTORY. Votes for women... (The end of the world is nigh). Ten o'clock closing... (The end of the world is still nigh). Homosexual Law Reform... (The end of the world is nigher). Civil Unions Bill... (The end is even more nigh). ETC... Sunday News, 3 December 2004

HISTORY. Votes for women... (The end of the world is nigh). Ten o'clock closing... (The end of the world is still nigh). Homosexual Law Reform... (...

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Image: The traffic lights near Parliament have had a gender shift... green flashing women have replaced men... 3 September 2009

The traffic lights near Parliament have had a gender shift... green flashing women have replaced men... 3 September 2009

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Image: Blomfield, William, 1866-1938 :The Gimlet Female Purges the Electoral Roll. New Zealand Observer and Free Lance, 14 September 1895.

Blomfield, William, 1866-1938 :The Gimlet Female Purges the Electoral Roll. New Zealand Observer and Free Lance, 14 September 1895.

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: "I don't think I'm appealing to the woman voter. One woman said she'd never vote for someone like me. And she's my wife." 3 December, 2007

"I don't think I'm appealing to the woman voter. One woman said she'd never vote for someone like me. And she's my wife." 3 December, 2007

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: The summit at last, suffrage cartoon

The summit at last, suffrage cartoon

Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

Image: Izett, P. :News from the seat of war. New Zealand Graphic, 1 December 1894.

Izett, P. :News from the seat of war. New Zealand Graphic, 1 December 1894.

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Blomfield, William, 1866-1938:The New Woman God. New Zealand Observer and Free Lance, 22 June 1895.

Blomfield, William, 1866-1938:The New Woman God. New Zealand Observer and Free Lance, 22 June 1895.

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Image: Inspired by Family First's Referendum on Smacking, other groups start to collect signatures. 'End women's suffrage'. 'Put men back on top'. 'Sorry for what? Take back the apology, Kev!' 'Legalise witch burning'. 'Death to Harry Potter!' 'Bring back slavery'. "Put the black folk back in the cotton fields?" "President Obama isn't going to be happy!" 26 February, 2008

Inspired by Family First's Referendum on Smacking, other groups start to collect signatures. 'End women's suffrage'. 'Put men back on top'. 'Sorry ...

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Saudi women get the vote. 27 September 2011

Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Saudi women get the vote. 27 September 2011

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image: Clark, Laurence 1949- :Women, give us the vote. 15 June 1993.

Clark, Laurence 1949- :Women, give us the vote. 15 June 1993.

Alexander Turnbull Library

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