Category: Domesticity

• Missed: Mrs America?

  Wednesday night saw the TV series Mrs America hit our screen in the UK. The series dramatises, more than documents the path of second-wave feminism in the United States. The initial episode centres around Phyllis Schlafly, played by the Hollywood great: Cate Blanchette. Schlafly, a staunch anti-feminist who lead the fight against the Equal Rights…

  Alison Little

  July 10, 2020

  1950’s, Abortion, Beauty Pageanting, Conflict, Conquering, Consentual Sex, Degrading, Depression, Domesticity, Family, Female Icons, Feminism, fiction, Gloria Steinem, House Wife, Leg over, Morality, Mother, No Sex, Non-consensual sex, Phyllis Schlafly, Relationships, Religious Controlling Mechanism, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• A Void

  A Void In this, I have agreed to what was termed ‘A life modelling process’ for an artist seeking volunteers for a project he is working on. I stand before him in my dressing gown, nude underneath and wondering what he wants me to do, he tells me: ‘Don’t worry, I have done this lots…

  Alison Little

  January 24, 2020

  Abortion, Art, Casual Sex, Celebration, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Consent, Decay, Degrading, Depression, Dildo, Disorder, Domesticity, Dust, End of Innocence, Ethical, Female Icons, Feminist Art, Fertility, fiction, Flash Fiction, Gender Roles, Hopital, Illegal Abortion, Impotency, Installation, KY Jelly, Latex, Library, Life Model, Liverpool, Liverpool Central Library, Menopause, Mental Health, Metropolis, Morality, Non-consensual sex, Photography, Rape and Sexual Violence, Relationships, Sculpture, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sinful, Social Roles, Suffrage Movement, Third wave feminism, Trauma, Uncategorized, Unpeel skin, Victim Blaming, Vulva, Waste Product, Women’s Right

• Barbie Must Die!

    The top 10 reasons why Barbie must die and be with us no longer. 10 Goes out with Ken. 9 Drives very slow cars. 8 A bit too fond of Pink! 7 Delicate and brakes easily. 6 Does nothing other than leisure activities. 5 Injection moulded, resulting in her looking like every other injection…

  Alison Little

  November 22, 2019

  American Dream, Aryan culture, Barbie, Beauty, Beauty Pageanting, death, Domesticity, Female Icons, Feminism, Funeral, Gender Roles, Uncategorized

• 1950’s Girls Annuals: the Homemaker

  Seventy years on from when the girls annual of the 1950’s were being read in the  pink bedrooms of the post-second world war generation we look back at there content. Where they looking to inspire the girls who would grow up to lead second-wave feminism through the seventies, or were they looking to indoctrinate the…

  Alison Little

  November 8, 2019

  1950’s, Beauty, Bio-degrade, Domesticity, Eco warrior, Female Icons, Feminism, Feminist Art, Feminists don’t wear Pink, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Freedom of speech, Gender Roles, House Wife, Learning, Morality, Recycle, Recycling, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• Best Dressed Easter Bunny

  Easter, Bunnies and Dressing Up. Let’s get things straight! How did the Easter Bunny come about? The Easter Bunny actually came from Folklore, the Pagan Festival of Vernal Equinox fell around springtime. This was replicated with the Jewish Passover then again through Christianity as the Sunday when Jesus rose from the dead after the Crucifixion.…

  Alison Little

  April 5, 2019

  Birds, Cards, Casual Sex, Chip Fork, death, Domesticity, Easter, Easter Bunny, Fertility, Folklore, Green, Green Credentials, Greeting Cards, Lark Lane, Leisure time, Pagan, Uncategorized, Waste Product

• No Sex

  No Sex is a 90 second monolouge written for London Theatre Podcasts. No Sex Reviewing my New Year’s resolutions almost two weeks into January, I look at the first one, two very short, one syllable, words: More Sex! Prior to the Christmas break, the new puppy seemed to get the hang of toilet training, Post…

  Alison Little

  January 18, 2019

  Dildo, Dogs, Domesticity, Durex, Leisure time, No Sex, Puppy, Reading, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Uncategorized, Vulva