The Daily Book of Photography

DAY 230

SOCIAL & POLITICAL COMMENTARY

The Female Vote

SHATTERING THE CULT OF DOMESTICITY

Now forgotten by many, the fight launched by the suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20^th century was well-documented by camera. Begun in earnest in the early 1800s, the movement sought to remove the stereotypical roles of women and what would later be termed “The Cult of Domesticity,” and give women the right to vote and have a political voice. The first women’s rights convention was held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.¹

Gaining the vote of the female population was an issue made for photography. Reviewing photographs from this era, the ...