WOMEN'S LIBERATION
After the exhibition on Pop Art it seemed like the right time to visit Le Musée de la Monnaie and see « Women House ». Those years in the 60’s and 70’s when Women too stood up for their rights. The French were really not into the Women’s Liberations movement. I arrived back in Paris in the late 70’s and had been part of the movement in Australia. However, I have absolutely no memory of women screaming for their rights, just as they should have done. In actual fact, I never really belonged to any feminist group. I was divorced with a small child and just had to get on with living and earning enough so Nicky could have a decent life. I did want to see this exhibition and was not disappointed. Women House is the meeting of two concepts: a gender - the female - and a space - the domestic one. Public space was always masculine while the domestic space was for a long time the prison or the shelter of women. One got married, gave up a job and became a housewife a...