Have Your Cake And Ballot Too: Cookbooks in the Fight for Suffrage

Exactly one century ago this year, the United States extended the right to vote to women. To commemorate the centennial of this event, which has helped to shape American politics and society ever since, the WLA has been featuring events, exhibits, activities, and many other ways to learn about the fight for suffrage. One little-known chapter of American suffragist tactics that we’re highlighting is the suffrage cookbook.

A girl wearing a Votes for Women sash and a yellow dress brandishes a rolling pin and a fist at a frightened boy. The title reads, "You believe in women's suffrage- don't you?"
Anti-suffrage postcard of a young suffragist brandishing a rolling pin, undated. Palczewski Suffrage Photo Archive.
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