Category: House Wife
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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
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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
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 -
Gloria Steinem
The iconic feminist, the writer, the political activist and the author of her later biography, ‘My Life on the Road’. As a girl, she traveled across the US between Ohio and Florida for most of her informative years. The trailor upbringing came to an end when her parents divorced, she went to live and care for…
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Virginia Woolf and the Hours
The Hours Three Women, One day. Michael Cunningham’ novel, The Hours and the movie version, Directed by Stephen Daldry, gives a very accurate portrayal of Virginia Woolf beginning with her final act: suicide. The narrative intertwines the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf, Laura Brown an unhappy housewife in 1950’s Loss Angeles and Clarissa Vaughan…
Alison Little
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