Category: Seventies

• 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

• Quotes from Catherine MacKinnon

  Catherine MacKinnon, a mother of second-wave feminism, led the US movement alongside greats such as Andrea Dworkin and Gloria Steinem. Primarily, a legal scholar, lecturing at institutions such as Harvard. Specialising in sexual harassment, pornography and prostitution. We take a look at some quotes from her acclaimed 1980’s publication, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on life and […]

  Alison Little

  December 6, 2019

  Abortion, Casual Sex, Consent, Degrading, Female Icons, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Male gaze, Morality, Mother, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Violence, Second Wave Feminism, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Social Roles, Uncategorized, Women’s Right

• 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

• 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 […]

  Alison Little

  September 13, 2019

  Abortion, Casual Sex, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Consentual Sex, Gloria Steinem, Graduation, High School, House Wife, Illegal Abortion, Mental Health, Rape and Sexual Violence, Seventies, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Social Roles, Uncategorized

• Hand-Held Destinies

  Wednesday evening saw the opening of; John Moores Painting Prize, the Rise of the Sixties in Liverpool, at the Exhibition Research Lab of John Moores University. The fresh white interior of the John Lennon Art and Design Building provided the exhibition venue, brought to life by an evening of the performance. Stimulating music, spoken word […]

  Alison Little

  March 29, 2019

  Albert Dock, Celebration, Celebrity Culture, Feminist Art, fiction, Flash Back, Flash Fiction, Leisure time, Liverpool, Local History, Morality, New Brighton, Seventies, Sex, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Parteners, Sexualization, Sexualization of Children, Social Roles, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• Keys

  Keys is the latest flash Fiction work from Alison Little. Keys Around us we are surrounded by keys, hung from every section, floating around, spinning. Shadows brightly identified by the white surfaces which are the parameters of our encasement in this heaven -like cell. The keys float and dangle head height like angels in an […]

  Alison Little

  May 11, 2018

  Art, Captivity, Conceptual Art, Conflict, Crumlin Road, Failing, Flash Fiction, Hanging, Installation, Keys, Learning, Liverpool, Painting, Photography, Prison, Safe Space, Seventies, Soundscape, Trial, Uncategorized

• A Light from Above

  A Light for Above is a Flash fiction piece written by Alison Little, potentially to be used for the opening of a short story or Novella, the text is read by herself. All characters and events are fictitious and not based on real life.  Reading of text by Alison Little In the distance, she can […]

  Alison Little

  January 19, 2018

  Childhood Sexual Abuse, Evil, Funeral, Leisure time, Liverpool, Rain, Seventies, Social Roles, Uncategorized

• Riendeer versus Diesel

  The last call of the evening on my busiest evening of the year Christmas Eve, I overheard a comment about how reindeer must be soo much cheaper than diesel. Reindeer cheaper than diesel? You have to feed them and they eat loads. Harnesses have to be bought and you have to pay extra for the […]

  Alison Little

  December 22, 2017

  Christmas, Crack, Crack whore, fiction, Leg over, Menopause, Pre-menstraul, Relationships, Roodolf, Seventies, Uncategorized