Brooches for women’s suffrage

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There is a clear and significant difference between the propaganda resources which were created in the fight for women’s suffrage and those in, for example, the fight for the right on abortion during the so-called second feminist wave. This is clearly evident by comparing these brooches to a button with the text ‘Legalize abortion’!

Atria has a silver applesauce spoon and a copper thimble, both engraved with ‘Women’s suffrage’, but none however with ‘legalize abortion’ engraved.

‘Jus Suffragii’ Broche

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