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After Others folded in 1919, Loy moved her poetry to Margaret Anderson’s The Little Review during the periodical’s tenure in New York. Her poem “The Lion’s Jaws” appears in the September-December 1920 issue. Loy’s poem is situated within…

In the midst of the many masculine print images of American women, especially in the form of activist figures or suffragettes, Art Young’s 1913 cartoon invites consideration of traditional feminine beauty. Young’s fruitful career with The Masses…

John Sloan’s cartoon “She’s Got the Point” depicts a public address from a suffragette on a busy street corner, a common scene from the years leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Unlike Glen Coleman’s unkempt…

In his June 1913 illustration, artist Stuart Davis opts to feature an unlikely pair of women on the cover of The Masses. Traditionally, periodicals of this historical moment deployed images of attractive, feminine, privileged women in their cartoons,…

An illustration like the one featured in the Pears soap advertisement from McClure’s Magazine directly confronts cultural anxiety about a woman’s unnamed power and bewitching influence. The ad functions in two ways. First, it highlights a…

Glen Coleman’s “A Great Joke” cartoon appears alongside Seymour Barnard’s “Woman’s Place—A Nursery Rhyme” in the October 1913 issue of The Masses. Both texts take aim at suffragettes. Taken together, Coleman’s visual message and…

The “Adam & Eve” cartoon series present a re-imagining of one of western culture’s most enduring and formative stories: the Biblical tale of original sin and the Garden of Eden. As with other images in the series, the cartoon reflects an…

The basic plot of the cartoon strip shows a rural couple, Maria and Silas, arguing over their literal hens, but also the larger implication of “henpecking” in their relationship. The husband and wife are shown to have a somewhat antagonistic…

This page from Scribner’s Magazine juxtaposes two different explicitly politically oriented cartoons. In the top panel, we see a debate between different female candidates—auspiciously for some office, possibly within a suffrage organization or a…