Description:
light grey backdrop paper; woman in short hair wearing a tweed skirt, striped blouse and sweater with heeled shoes, standing with one foot in front of the other, proper left hand on the back of a side chair, proper right holding a coffee cup, she is smiling and wears a wedding ring; the text below the image reads: 'The Housewife This woman aspires to goddessdom, but she is compromised by some everyday realities: she can't spend all day on her face because she has to feed the kids. She can't starve herself bed-slat thin because she has to keep her strength up. Sex is a routine part of her life, whether it be an exciting one or an unpleasant one. If she wants to be kinky, she might swap. She is intelligent, but has convinced herself that she is fulfilled.; feminist
Label Text:
This is edition 4 of 4, 2 AP. Additional writing on this object can be found at
Paper + People the Cunningham Center Blog.
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