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A History of Feminism and Sex Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Texts to reference:

"The Male Madonna and the Feminine Uncle Sam: Visual Argument, Icons, and Ideographs in 1909

Anti-Woman Suffrage Postcards" (Palczewski 2005)

"Inversion and the Third Sex: Gender Variance and Queer Expression in Anti-Suffrage Rhetoric" (Pankuch 2018)

Alice Paul: I'm sorry, it's just I'm mean and loud

Lucy Burns: I need everybody all day long to like me so much

Inez Milholland: eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs

Doris Stevens: hey you could pour soup in my lap and I'll probably apologize to you

Ruza Wenclawska: you know how I'm filled with rage?

Carrie Chapman Catt: I'll keep all my emotions here, and then one day, I'll die

Ida B Wells: that's what I thought you'd say you dumb fucking horse

Molly Hay: THATS MY WIFE

Mary Terrell: mmmm we're not so different you and I. You have your law practice. And me? I have all these fucking markers

Phyllis Terrell: I am very small, and I have no money, so you can imagine the stress that I am under

Dudley Malone: my wife is a bitch and I like her SO MUCH

Happy (belated) International Woman's Day 💪

These are real Suffragette quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst! 😌

I will never forget that just 7 months ago a man told me to my face that women shouldn't have the right to vote. His reason, he said, was that "Men vote with their minds. But women vote with their hearts."

Janet “Jenny” McCallum was born in Dunfermline on July 21st 1881.

Jenny, as she became known, was the eldest of the thirteen children of John and Jenny McCallum. Her father worked on the construction of the Forth Bridge. She worked in a linen weaving factory and she was unusual in becoming a working-class woman who was active in the women’s suffrage movement.

Jenny was arrested, fined and imprisoned for her part in a demonstration at the Houses of Parliament.

In 1907 she organised what was called a “Great Demonstration” where the national leaders of the Women’s Social and Political Union would come to West Fife.

By 1908, she had joined Anna Munro in the Women’s Freedom League. The league was a break away group from the WSPU who objected to the autocratic management of the Pankhursts. By 27th October 1908 she was in London. She had abandoned her job in a Dunfermline linen factory. She and 14 others were arrested after staging a demonstration in Old Palace Yard outside the houses of parliament; “a newspaper report says "four very athletic suffragettes clambered on a statue”.“. She was given the choice of paying a £5 fine or serving a sentence and chose a one month sentence. After leaving Holloway Prison she went to Glasgow on behalf of the WFL.

She returned to Dunfermline and after some time she went back into work so that she could help support her mother and sister. She married Harry Richardson in 1915 and they had three children. In 1919 she came to the fore in a dispute with the Scottish National Housing Company. She gathered attention for the Rosyth tenants who were involved in what was presented as a women led rent strike. The dispute led to some tenants appearing in court and McCallum was able to arrange for Sylvia Pankhurst to speak on their behalf.

In the 1920s Jenny and Harry decided to emigrate as there was little work in Scotland. By the time votes for women were agreed, she was living in South Africa.

Jenny McCallum died in Pretoria in South Africa in 1946.