Cat Imagery in the Suffrage Movement

http://hasimages.blogspot.ca/2013/05/cat-imagery-in-suffragette-movement.html?m=1 Cats were a common symbol in suffragette imagery. Cats represented the domestic sphere, and anti-suffrage postcards often used them to reference female activists. The intent was to portray suffragettes as silly, infantile, incompetent, and ill-suited to political engagement.