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Media Made Women
Foraging For Female Fictions Over the past fifty years American women have consumed an abundance of often conflicting imagery about our role in the world and bits and pieces of these mass media...
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The Real Housewives of the Cold War
Like most women growing up in the 1950s and 1960s I was fed a generous serving of sugar-coated media stereotypes of happy homemakers who were as frozen and neatly packaged as the processed foods they...
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Happy Homemakers in Training
Illustration Saturday Evening Post Feb 16 1957 Steve Dohanos illustrator Before Domestic Diva Martha Stewart instructed American women in how to be the perfect homemaker, high school girls were...
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Matriculating into Marriage Pt II
Vintage ad 1948 Cavalier Cedar Chests -Perfect to pack away all your lovely things for your new married life. Looks like the gal graduate in this ad was one smart cookie and not just because she earned...
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You’ve Come a Long Way Peggy Olson
Mad Men’s Peggy Olson Big Time Career Girl (R) Vintage DC Comics“This is the big chance I’ve been waiting for! I mustn’t fail this time! Not love or anything else is going to keep me from success!” We...
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Gender Pay Gap Benefits
“Men in Charge” collage by Sally Edelstein Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly has some advise for all the single ladies out there. Quit yer whining about the gender pay gap! All you husband hunting...
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Women, Gender, Politics and Art
Collage Detail from Womens Lib- A Storms Approachin’ collage by Sally Edelstein Nearly 45 years after the women’s liberation movement stormed onto the scene opening a floodgate of discourse about...
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The Real Housewives of The Cold war
Like most women growing up in the 1950s and 1960s I was fed a generous serving of sugar-coated media stereotypes of happy homemakers who were as frozen and neatly packaged as the processed foods they...
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Operation June Cleaver
On a recent chilly Sunday women started disappearing from ads, magazine covers, billboards and posters directing readers to Not-There.org. Part of a powerful ad campaign to raise awareness of gender...
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The Maddeningly Mad Men World of Sexual Harassment
As the rumblings of the embryonic women’s movement began to be heard in 1970, some women in the workplace began quietly grumbling too. Even as working women began taking baby steps in their Enna...
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The Year of the Woman
Collage by Sally Edelstein for Huffington Post Shirley Chisholm, Flo Kennedy, Bella Abzug, oh my! An amazing documentary that had been lost in time….until now. A documentary that disappeared more...
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Who’s Afraid of Feminism
I am pleased to be part of a new Exhibit “Who’s Afraid of Feminism ” opening Sept. 10, 2015 WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ARTS, WITH A.I.R. GALLERY, PRESENTS: WHO’S AFRAID OF FEMINISM? VENUE: 155...
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Who’s Afraid of Feminism – Art Show Opening
Collage by Sally Edelstein “How Old is Old?” 36″ x 51″ on view at the AIR Gallery, Dumbo, NY I am so pleased my collage How Old Is Old is included in an...
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Politics – Where the Boys Are
Vintage Comic Young Romance, 1970. Art by Don Heck and John Verpoorten Due to a faux pas on Friday, a feminist icon found herself in a very politically incorrect moment. Gloria Steinem got into hot...
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Sexism, So What’s New?
As this presidential election has made abundantly clear, sexism is not just some feminist fantasy. In a tumultuous campaign year of blatant misogyny where boys behaving badly have both demeaned and...
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Wear All White To Vote
When this ad appeared in 1943 women weren’t allowed to own credit cards, serve on juries or open bank accounts. Now show your vitality that I’m With Her and wear those white pumps to the polls to vote...
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Nasty Women Vote
Nasty Women vote. So do women who are not “tens,” who’ve been called pigs, dogs and slobs. You know, women not worthy of being “grabbed by the pussy” by that repugnant, overweight Republican candidate...
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Women March On Washington
Women’s March on Washington Graphics by Sally Edelstein and Karen Gutfreund Americans and citizens around the world are marching tomorrow to challenge Trump’s administration. We are here and we are...
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So Long Mary Tyler Moore
As a 30 year old single working woman, Mary Richards acted as a kind of stand in for a new American female for a generation of women. TV Guide May 1977 With the turn of a TV dial, Mary turned the...
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A Tale of Two Cities- Washington DC Inauguration Weekend
The tale of two cities was the tale of two hats It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. It was two days in January where two...
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