This week, Wentworth Institute of Technology Professor Alison Lang teaches a class about the women's suffrage movement.

Professor Lang draws from her book picturing political power to describe how women voting rights activists and their opponents used images to support their causes.

So we have this scene that's very much kind of in the same world as the previous one. It's suggesting that if women gain rights, if women seek power and win power,

they're going to abandon their domestic duties, they're going to force men to become more womanly,

and it's going to lead to other

changes, including challenging the class hierarchies like we see with this domestic servant,

as well as the racial hierarchies and the system of slavery. This class was part of a national

endowment for the Humanities Institute for College and University teachers hosted by the City University of New York Graduate Center.

More in a moment.

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Shopify.com slash setup. So throughout the seminar, you've been thinking about images during this

19th century period. And specifically today, we're going to think about the ways that images

really constructed gender roles, particularly in the 19th century about the ways that images really constructed gender roles, particularly

in the 19th century, and the ways that activists use images to shape, alter, change gender

roles during this time period too.

So what I'd like actually to start off with is just to think about the ways that these

images are part of our culture today.

And one is the ways that portraits, like Susan Anthony's portrait, which we see in this 2017 Women's March parade.

We see Susan Anthony's portrait. She's the closest head to us with a circle glasses.

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