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Mocking Women
Chamber of Female Horrors

A Puck cartoon showing world leaders walking through a "chamber of female horrors." 1901. (click on image for a larger version)

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This cartoon from Puck, 1901, is captioned "A Suggestion to the Buffalo Exposition: - Let Us Have a Chamber of Female Horrors." In the center, as if going through an exhibition, are symbolic (male) world leaders, led by Uncle Sam (United States) and John Bull (Great Britain).

Women and causes depicted include:

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