Detail of “White Wash” Collage by Sally Edelstein composed of vintage appropriated images
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Despite the fact that many women were on the front lines in the civil rights movement, not only the driving force behind sit-ins, but helping to organize the 1963 March on Washington, the media continued to portray women as vapid housewives preoccupied with the never-ending battle over dirt and disorder.
Though the atmosphere was one of infinite challenges, women were seen still chained to their Electrolux vacuum cleaners, chasing dirt and debating the well-worn topic of “ring around the collar”, while men saved the world.
Detail of “White Wash” Collage by Sally Edelstein composed of vintage appropriated images
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While others were out marching for civil rights in the 1960s fighting to break the color barriers, hermetically sealed housewives in the media were portrayed cheerfully living in a colorfast world obsessed with getting their laundry not just white but whiter than white, a white to unequal others.
We Shall Overcome Dirt was their anthem.
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