ID: 9721 -
Valerio Massimo De Angelis
- Macerata
Type
: Image
Format
:
Medium
: Digital File/jpg
Extent
: 146 KB
Identifier
:
Source
: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division
Title
: Torturing Women in Prison
Subtitle
:
Alternative
:
Agents
:
Creator
: Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Role
: Publisher
Name
: Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Created
: 1909
Date
: Issued
in/on
: 1909
Language
: English
Rights
:
Relation
: IsPartOf
Qualifier
: Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division
Coverage
:
Place
: London
Time
: 1909
Description
: Lithograph showing a woman being forcibly fed
Subjects
:
Places
Subjects
:
Cultural Practices
Subjects
:
Wo/Men
Subjects
:
Cultural Practices
Keywords
:
women's prisons
Keywords
:
forcible feeding
Keywords
:
suffragism
Keywords
:
hunger-strike
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Places, women's prisons)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Cultural Practices, forcible feeding)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Wo/Men, suffragism)
Query Subject+Keyword
: (Cultural Practices, hunger-strike)
Comment
: Lithograph from the By Popular Demand website of the Library of Congress (see record
9739
). To see the image click
here
. Forcible feeding was the practice used against the women hunger-strikers who wanted to show the injustice and cruelty of their imprisonment.