Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Convicts, Lunatics, and Women!

Convicts, Lunatics, and Women![edit]

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Reason: While aspects of it are problematic, I'm a fan of history in the raw, and not trying to hide the problematic aspects of otherwise good movements. This poster is in Ableism for a reason. But it's also a fine example of a notable suffragette and artist's work, and, while we have images of suffragettes, we have very little of their propaganda, which makes it rather valuable.
Articles in which this image appears: Emily J. Harding (she usually worked under her maiden name, though not here) Disability in the United Kingdom and Ableism
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Emily J. Harding Andrews, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.9% of all FPs} 07:00, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If only we could prohibit lunatics from voting. – Sca (talk) 13:43, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support with context. There's a significant literature in women's history and disability history focusing on how eugenic feminism informed the suffrage movements of North America and the UK (and I assume others). It wasn't a side story; "(white) women deserve the vote more than X" was a favorite argument, and effective in times of intense racism, nativism, and ableism. This image represents an ugly but important strain of suffrage rhetoric. – Penny Richards (talk) 14:06, 19 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Incidentally, we have an article on eugenic feminism that could probably stand improvement (a while back, I put some work into making it slightly better than absolutely dreadful). XOR'easter (talk) 21:18, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – article is too weak, too short. Can it be expanded by a paragraph (or two)? It will improve the encyclopedic value. It will have my support if it is expanded a little. Bammesk (talk) 00:49, 20 August 2019 (UTC) . . . Support, I hadn't seen the second and third articles listed above. It would be nice if Emily Harding's article was a bit longer though. Bammesk (talk) 01:39, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely agree on your latter point, so I've made some additions and improvements to the article.Penny Richards (talk) 03:16, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support. MER-C 18:43, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per the high EV in not whitewashing history. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:09, 20 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 02:59, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --- Coffeeandcrumbs 23:46, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support with thanks for the article additions prompted by this discussion. XOR'easter (talk) 21:14, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment special thanks to Penny Richards for additions and improvements to the article. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 20:13, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Corrected my previous "support" to "comment", as I lack the required number of Wikipedia edits, thus not yet being entitled to vote. I had mistakenly assumed I was voting for a Wiki Commons Featured picture candidate. -- Franz van Duns (talk) 12:42, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Convicts Lunatics and Women! Have No Vote for Parliament, ca. 1907-1918.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:26, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]