Content note: 1880 satire of women voting, built on gender-reversal jokes, shown as published. This object is shown as it was published. Why
"A Female Suffrage Fancy" (Puck, 14 July 1880)
Eight scenes of a world where women have the vote: women in men's dress and manners, drinking, voting for handsome candidates, driving ugly men from the polls, and a man minding children. The tell: every scene is a reversal of roles, not a description of what suffragists asked for.
Puck of New York ran this double-page composite on 14 July 1880. Its eight scenes picture a world where women have the vote: women in men's dress and manners, drinking, voting for handsome candidates and driving ugly men from the polls, and a man minding children. The sheet asks readers to imagine suffrage as a swap of roles. That is a straw man, because every scene is a reversal and none describes what suffragists actually asked for.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- July 14, 1880
- Period
- Pre-1914
- Made by
- Puck (Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Hayes Administration
- Leader
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Gender and suffrage, Elections and party politics
- Event
- US Woman Suffrage Campaign
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, retrieved October 10, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (published 1880, before 1931); LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 98502830. "A Female Suffrage Fancy" (Puck, 14 July 1880)
