"National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage" Badge
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Title
"National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage" Badge
Subject
Women's rights
Political participation
Description
Badge produced by National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage. The NLOWS was founded in 1910 in London, after the merger of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League and the Men’s League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, to oppose granting voting rights to women in the UK. Reasons given for this opposition included: doubts women would be able to make sound political decisions due to their emotional nature, fears that if women became involved in politics, they would stop having children and the human race would die out, claims that women were already represented by their husbands, and so on. The organisation ceased to exist after the 1918 Representation of the People Act.
Creator
The National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage
Source
Kenney Papers, University of East (UEA) Anglia Archives
Publisher
The Merchant Portrait Company
Date
1910-1918
Format
jpeg image file
Language
English (United Kingdom)
Type
Identifier
AK/4/2
Collection
Tags
Citation
The National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage, “"National League for Opposing Woman-Suffrage" Badge,” Suffragette Stories, accessed June 6, 2020, https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/items/show/27.