Historical Protests- Women’s Rights

Historical Protests- Women’s Rights

Political Cartoon from 1998
Illustration by Chuck Asay © Pikes Peak Library District. Retrieved from: Digital Library of America

This image, from 1998, depicts Bill Clinton as Commander-in-Chief. Clinton was known as a supporter of the women’s suffragist movement, along with his wife, Hillary Clinton. Willey, Clinton’s aid and the speaker at the front of the line, is accusing President Clinton of groping her in this image. My interpretation of this image is that, for Clinton, supporting the women’s rights movement was a political stance as opposed to believing that women really deserved equality.

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