Category: The Sixties

• 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

• 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

• A Way Through Everton Brow

  A way through Everton Brow is a fictional works from Alison Little, none of the events of characters are based on real life. Approaching the entrance to Everton Park I encounter a group congregated around the steps area. In having walked up from the town, then I decided to take a short cut through Everton…

  Alison Little

  August 11, 2017

  Decay, Dogs, Everton Park, Family, fiction, Ford Thunderbolt, Heroin, Homelessness, Leisure time, Liverpool, Regeneration, Street Drinker, The Eighties, The Sixties, Uncategorized

• She-Lennon

  She sits chin neatly poised into a lightly clasped hand. Mouth slightly ajar, almost ready to take on a soft melody. Eyes looking through small rounded glasses into a place far away into her thoughts. Skin soft and smooth to touch, hair short and curly, wild but angelic in its freestyle. As her mind moves…

  Alison Little

  June 23, 2017

  Beatles, fiction, Leisure time, Liverpool, Male gaze, The Sixties, Uncategorized