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time for the next journal quilt, May last year, I was still following my ‘woman’ theme, after the gilded cage of April I had started to think of the female interpretation of the see, hear, speak no evil only I was not thinking of evil but how women are quite often witnesses but have/had no voice,

Woman 5, original image width cropped so three images fit the journal width, inkjet printed, machine quilted, the border is handcrafted batik fabric,

The Woman’s hour serial now is , it expresses the social confinement of women in the mid twentieth century, I remember well how women not only took their husband’s last name but his first name too the prefix of Mrs being the only indication that they were female and not the man, they were expected to give up work and they were considered mad if they wanted a ‘career’ this still applies in the world to many women and many more suffer greater imprisonment, in my life I have had more freedom than my mother and my daughter has had more freedom than me but when the most discriminated against person in the workforce is a mother of young children equal freedom between men and women is still a long way off.