Newsweek International, November 3rd, 2003
Wearing a floor-sweeping dress and a wrought-iron chain around her waist, a woman yokes herself to Britain's Houses of Parliament. The black-and-white image, captured by a photojournalist in 1908, has come to represent the campaign of British suffragists for the right to vote. But a thoughtful new exhibit at the London's Women's Library, entitled "Art for Votes' Sake" (through Dec. 20), commemorates the centennial of Britain's suffrage movement by looking at the subtler, more complex images of the struggle for enfranchisement, ultimately won in 1928. After all, says curator Bethan Stevens, the...
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