My wife doesn't work
Poster
1980 (made)
1980 (made)
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Portrait poster which uses humour to comment on male and female gender stereotyping. The poster is laid out in a chequerboard pattern, with 20 different scenes for the daily life of a stereotypical woman. Each panel illustrates a time of day. For example, the top, left panel shows 6am, depicting a mother going to her son, who is crying in his cot. The panels move from left to right, going through the day, showing the mother preparing breakfast for the family, taking the children to the park, and doing housework. The bottom right corner is the same as the top left, indicating how every day is the same. The 1pm panel shows the father in the pub with his friend saying 'my wife doesn't work.' The poster is entirely in blue and white, with the times of the day denoted in red.
Object details
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| Title | My wife doesn't work (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photostencil, screen printing, paper, plastic laminate |
| Brief description | Poster by See Red Women's Workshop entitled 'My wife doesn't work'. London, 1980. |
| Physical description | Portrait poster which uses humour to comment on male and female gender stereotyping. The poster is laid out in a chequerboard pattern, with 20 different scenes for the daily life of a stereotypical woman. Each panel illustrates a time of day. For example, the top, left panel shows 6am, depicting a mother going to her son, who is crying in his cot. The panels move from left to right, going through the day, showing the mother preparing breakfast for the family, taking the children to the park, and doing housework. The bottom right corner is the same as the top left, indicating how every day is the same. The 1pm panel shows the father in the pub with his friend saying 'my wife doesn't work.' The poster is entirely in blue and white, with the times of the day denoted in red. |
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| Credit line | Given by the Greenwich Mural Workshop |
| Object history | Poster was exhibited as part of the Greenwich Mural Workshop's exhibition 'Printing is easy...?' |
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| Bibliographic reference | From the Greenwich Mural Workshop's 1986 exhibition 'Printing is Easy...?' |
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| Accession number | E.555-2013 |
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| Record created | November 20, 2013 |
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