British Suffrage Rhetorical Devices

The British Suffrage movement started around 1832 and lasted until 1918 when women in the UK finally got the right to vote. It started out pretty peacefully, but the movement had a significant shift around 1905 when some “suffragettes” started taking militant action. It’s important to note that this poster was probably published around 1907-1910, but it was distributed by a suffrage group that was against militant action. So this poster portrays women as educated, rational people to combat the negative image that the suffrage movement gained because of these militant suffragettes. It’s showing that not all women fighting for suffrage were like that, and that women still deserved the right to vote. It’s also showing that the men in power are foolish for keeping them in the same category as “convicts and lunatics.”