Sexism Gallery

A man reproaches his pregnant mistress, from Crimes and Punishments, special

BAL366891 A man reproaches his pregnant mistress, from Crimes and Punishments, special edition of L'Assiette au Beurre, 1st March 1902 (colour litho) by Vallotton, Felix Edouard (1865-1925); Private Collection; (add.info.: Crimes et Chatiments; Caption: Your mother shouldn't have let you get this way';); Swiss, out of copyright

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Two Girls of The Period, 1869. Artist: John Tenniel

Two Girls of The Period, 1869. This cartoon shows a fashionable protestant convert to Catholicism looking in horror at the Catholic nun. This is a reference to the Mary Saurin case where a nun had taken action against her convent for having forced her to carry out such menial and manual tasks as scrubbing floors. However, the Protestant faith relied much on a relationship with God based on their works yet, in this cartoon, the convert is shown as interested in little but her clothes and hair. So this picture not only presents a negative view of Catholicism, but a negative view of the shallowness of women of fashion. From Punch, or the London Charivari, February 20, 1869

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A full length frontal figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1793

Lettering continues: "for a more full description of this monster, see, an ingenious book, lately publish'd, price 3/6, entitled, Man-midwifery dessected, containing a variety of well authenticated cases, elucidating this animal's propensities to cruelty & indecency, sold by the publisher of this print, who has presented the author with the above for a frontispiece to his book."
A man-mid-wife, or a newly discovered animal, not known in Buffon's time; ... - 1793

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