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Calendar Ladies: Popular Culture, Sexuality and the Middle-Class, Middle-Aged Domestic Woman

maggieandrews{at}domesticconsumption.org.uk

Using the recent popularity of the Rystone Women’s Institute millennium calendar as a starting point and drawing upon a range of popular texts, this article argues that where once the middle-aged, middle-class domestic woman was seen as the negation of sexuality and ‘others’ were defined by their embodiment of sexuality, in the last 25 years, informed by second-wave feminism, discourses of female sexuality have shifted and been wrenched; divisions whose boundaries have become more fluid.

Key Words: age • class • domesticity • femininity • sexuality

Sexualities, Vol. 6, No. 3-4, 385-403 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/136346070363007


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