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Women's Liberation is the Revolution

Poster
circa 1974 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pen Dalton (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Colour screenprint poster produced in response to the slogan circa 1974: 'There'll be no revolution without women's liberation, There'll be no women's liberation without the revolution'.

Object details

Categories
Posters
Gender and Sexuality
Feminism
Object type
Poster
TitleWomen's Liberation is the Revolution (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour screenprint poster
Brief description
"Women's Liberation is the Revolution" by Pen Dalton. Great Britain, circa 1974.
Physical description
Colour screenprint poster produced in response to the slogan circa 1974: 'There'll be no revolution without women's liberation, There'll be no women's liberation without the revolution'.
Gallery label
(01/07/2023)
Women’s equality

Graphic design has brought attention to the fight for women’s equality for over a hundred years.

In the UK, a key moment was the granting of voting rights to some women in 1918. Feminism expanded in the 1970s to promote equality of the sexes. Since the 1990s, it has moved towards an understanding that the fight for empowerment relates to all underrepresented identities.

3 What a Woman may be, and yet not have the Vote
Designer: The Suffrage Atelier
Date: 1913
Location: England
Materials: Woodcut printed paper
Given by Miss A. E. Norris
Museum no. E.646-1972

4 Black women will not be intimidated
Designer: See Red Women’s Workshop
Date: 1980–81
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Given by Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson and Bronwen Rice
Museum no. E.91-2011

5 Resisters
Designer: Aqui
Date: 2018
Location: UK
Materials: Risograph on paper
Given by Aqui Thami
Museum no. E.669-2019

6 Women’s liberation is the revolution!!
Designer: Pen Dalton
Date: About 1974
Location: England
Materials: Screenprint on paper
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Museum no. E.788-2004

7 Can you find her?
Designer: UN Women Egypt and DDB
Dubai
Date: 2017
Location: Dubai
Materials: Printed paper

[Young V&A, Design Gallery, Design gives us a voice, group object label]
Credit line
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.788-2004

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1023187/womens-liberation-is-the-revolution-poster-pen-dalton/
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