Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture Theo Tyson will explore how Victorian ideas of womanhood including sexuality and heteronormative, patriarchal standards–played a key role in opponents’ arguments against suffrage.
To close out our commemoration of PRIDE month, Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture Theo Tyson will explore how Victorian ideas of womanhood --including sexuality and heteronormative, patriarchal standards--played a key role in opponents' arguments against suffrage. She will look at nineteenth-century photographs of renowned suffragists with their partners and anti-suffrage propaganda that touted engendered constructs; both ultimately contributing to redesigning women’s
To close out our commemoration of PRIDE month, Polly Thayer Starr Fellow in American Art and Culture Theo Tyson will explore how Victorian ideas of womanhood –including sexuality and heteronormative, patriarchal standards–played a key role in opponents’ arguments against suffrage. She will look at nineteenth-century photographs of renowned suffragists with their partners and anti-suffrage propaganda that touted engendered constructs; both ultimately contributing to redesigning women’s roles and responsibilities for generations and centuries to come. Tyson recently curated (Anti)SUFFRAGE at the Athenaeum that presented thirteen rare books, broadsides, paintings, photographs, and other items from the Boston Athenӕum’s special collections. (Anti)SUFFRAGE also presented the complexities of the struggle to secure and protect voting rights for women and people of color in the past and today.
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