The suffrage movement is responsible for a great deal, but it never to my knowledge was it linked to the development of the electric vibrator. Facts are completely irrelevant in the film by Tanya Wexler, “Hysteria,” that’s admittedly tongue in cheek when dealing with Victorian attitudes about women and sexuality. Perhaps the imaged link between…

Katherine Pfeffer Pross is an artist and painter from Seneca Falls, New York who considers herself “intensely concerned about equal rights and peace in the world.” She says: “I create works that are thought provoking with messages of inspiration and enlightenment.” One of her favorite movies is “Iron Jawed Angels.” In this painting Pross features…

Oregon’s suffrage centennial has some novel programs, such as the traveling sash that’s photographed as it moves around the state (called “Follow the Sash”). A sash is available for $15 from the Oregon Women’s History Consortium. The centennial web site, “Century of Action,” has historical documents, essays, news, events, and suffrage history. Glencoe Elementary Suffrage Singers are shown above…

Nine minute video about the history of women voting in Canada. Plans for a suffragette statue in Australia. Click here. New Zealand women plan their 120th anniversary of Votes for Women. Online book about woman suffrage in Mexico. Canada’s extraordinary suffragists. If you like news and stories of the suffrage movement, subscribe.

Former Oregon governor Barbara Roberts, center, with LuAnn Trotebas, left, and Alyce Cornyn-Selby, right, from the National Hat Museum, wearing vintage 1912 hats at a Oregon 2012 suffrage centennial event. Photos courtesy of Oregon Women’s History Consortium, Century of Action project. Photos by Andie Petkus. The story of suffrage is inching across the nation. The…

They called her Aunt Susan and she had so many adopted nieces, people couldn’t keep count. That’s why this post features a ten-minute audio clip from “Jailed for Freedom” by Doris Stevens, published back in Grandmother Edna’s day, that gives you a feeling of almost being there. Susan B. Anthony died before the ratification of…

Among serious suffrage buffs, you either like Carrie Chapman Catt or you don’t. Some believe she got too much credit for the suffrage win, and other would say not enough. Chances are, most people today haven’t heard of her. So the six-part interview series featuring Nate Levin might be filed away in the deep archives…

In July of 1913, the suffrage campaign wagon began its journey from the Manhattan office of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association to Long Island. This wagon, which inspired the suffrage wagon web site, represents the extensive grassroots organizing that it took to win the vote nationwide. Follow the suffrage wagon in 2014 to…

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The Votes for Women activists took their appeal to the Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July in 1915. It’s an example of the bold tactics of the suffragists in 1915 which didn’t win them the vote during that campaign, but it certainly sent a message that the issue wouldn’t go away. One version…