Force feeding

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An illustration which shows the readers of the newpaper how the process of force feeding was carried out. Women who were subjected to this action described it as being violated and brutal. A tube was forced down the woman's nasal passage to her stomach and liquidised food or broth (not heated) was poured down it via a funnel.

As a result of their activism, suffragettes were often imprisoned. In 1909, Marion Wallace-Dunlop was the first suffragette to go on hunger strike. Find out more.

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1037 {This is part of our History of Women series) In January 1910 the Illustrated London News (perhaps sympathetically) reviewed the case of the forced feeding of a leading female suffragist--very forced, very forcible, feeding-tube-up-the-nose-and-into-the-stomach...

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The force-feeding of suffragettes in England, 1912.

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