08/27/2026
You can purchase a replica copy of the 1917 Suffragette Cookbook at RELIQ. This cookbook was created to support the efforts of the suffragettes, providing income, a practical understanding of the publication process, and proof that voting did not disempower women in the kitchen. It contains recipes by Julia Ward Howe (founder of Mother's Day) and more! 🍳👵✨
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In honor of Women's Equality Day, the 106th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States, we're celebrating a few of the original Mighty Girls -- the suffragists! The suffragists were activists who worked tirelessly to secure that right for themselves, their daughters, and future generations of American women -- even as they often faced fierce opposition.
The women's suffrage postcard from 1915 pictured here is one example of the campaign literature produced by suffragists; it counters a common anti-suffrage argument of the era, that voting would "unsex" women and make them more masculine. The anti-suffragists were, to put it plainly, on the wrong side of both history and common sense -- and their intellectual heirs are still with us.
The same contempt that dismissed women as too emotional and irrational to be trusted with a ballot now circulates among the internet's aggrieved sexists, who have simply traded their grandfathers' anti-suffrage cartoons for memes.
Women are still grateful for the work of their suffragist sisters: since the 1980s, women have turned out to vote in significantly higher numbers than men.
A Suffrage Movement Postcard Collection reproducing Suffrage Movement artwork, imagery, and photos from the Library of Congress collection is available at https://amzn.to/45zn9Bs
For books for all ages about the courageous women who fought for women's right to vote, visit our blog post, "How Women Won The Vote: Books for Kids & Adults About the U.S. Suffrage Movement,” at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11827
For an excellent children's book about the last dramatic fight to win women's the right to vote, we recommend "Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Their Big Idea" for ages 7 to 12 at https://www.amightygirl.com/how-women-won-the-vote
For a fascinating book for adult readers about the final fierce fight for the ratification of the 19th Amendment during the summer of 1920, we highly recommend "The Woman's Hour" at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-woman-s-hour
For older kids, there are two wonderful books about the heroic women of the U.S. Suffrage Movement: "Roses and Radicals" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/roses-and-radicals) and "Votes for Women!" for ages 13 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/votes-for-women)
For our favorite t-shirt honoring women throughout history who fought for their rights, check out the "Well behaved women seldom make history" t-shirt -- available in a variety of styles and colors for all ages -- at https://www.amightygirl.com/well-behaved-women-history-shirt
