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1.There is a form of constraint in being a __________, society perpetually demands efficiency in their action and work.

a. dog
b. conformist women
c. gemini

2.Are you a __________ feminist ? Pick one.

a. good
b. bad
c. hell of a

3.Conforming is ___________, it does not require justification or fighting to defend one's position.

a. complex
b. funny
c. simpler

4. Women want to free themselves from societal constraints. However, a new form of pressure has been placed in front of them: _________________.

a. environnemental load
b.
c. queen’s song

5. My _________, my rules.

a. kitchen
b. body
c. nimbus 2000

6. Making ________ makes me smile.

a. to do list
b. protest march for social acceptance of LGBT community
c. crochet

7. Women are born with the ability to ___________.

a. be sweet.
b. be consumers.
c. do whatever they want, when they want, if they want.

8. In the 19’s, women used textile design - such as embroidery - to _________________.

a. exist in a male’s world.
b. make clothes for their babies.
c. fill their time when they had nothing to do.

9. Women are confined ____________.

a. in their domestic space.
b. only when there is too much patients of covid-19.
c. in the pocket of patriarchy.

10.Women thing for ____________.

a. themselves only.
b. everybody they meet in their life, even slugs.
c. their loves ones.

CONFORMITY IS COMFORTABLE

On this page, you will find several experiments, both critical and satyric, of what the female condition can be - and could have been -. We have mixed - without telling you where - writings made by female design theorists and societal diktats to experience them on this site.
We want to show the ambiguity of the boxes we are placed in during our life. Do we have to choose a side every time? To be all white or all black? Couldn't we be both feminist and accept to sometimes correspond to what the world expects from us?

One of the difficulties of a woman's existence lies in a quest of balance between what society expects and demands of her and her own aspirations. So should we interfere with our desires and projects, fight to be and remain who we are ? Or do we let ourselves be carried away by what others project on us ?
Is conformity really comfortable ?

WHERE ARE THE GOOD FEMINISTS?

JUDITH ATTFIELD

ELLEN LUPTON

ANOUSHKA KHANDWALA

PENNY SPARKE

MONA CHOLET

CHERYL BUCKLEY

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how good a

HOUSEWIFE

are you ?

I. Do you know all 8 Seasons Desperate Housewives by heart?

II. Do you never miss a crepe, not even the first one?

III. Is white vinegar your go to cleaning product?

IV. Do you wear latex gloves to do the dishes?

V. Do you put a few drops of essential oil in the vacuum cleaner bag so that it smells good when you use it ?

VI. Do you scent the marital bed with pillow mist every morning ?

VII. Do you make your husband's tie before he leaves for work ?

VIII. Do you know the standard sizes of sheets and and pillowcases ?

IX. Do you bring muffins to every new neighbor on the street ?

X. Do you laugh at your partner’s joke because you want him to think he is really funny ?

“But in a home there are dozens, yes, hundreds, of tasks requiring totally different knowledge and movements. There is ironing, dusting, cooking, sewing, baking, and care of children. No two tasks are alike.”

FREDERICKS Christine,
“Efficiency and the New House-Keeping”

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Fill the blank with one of the 3 proposed responses.

“But, by keeping it quiet, we leave in the shadows the more or less conscious trade-offs that many women have to make when they try to take into account both their own aspirations and the expectations of society. Whether they choose to favour the former or the latter, there will always be a price to pay.”

Mona Cholet,
“Habiter, mais avec qui ?”

b. conformist women
a. good
complex
a. environnemental load
b. body
b. protest march for social acceptance of LGBT community
c. do whatever they want, when they want, if they want
a. exist in a male’s world
b. only when there is too much patients of covid-19
a. themselves only.

TRUE or

FALSE

?

“To show women's different kitchen tools in contrast is important to make clear, that we are all the same and a conform social picture of the perfect Role Model can truly meet reality.”

“The society offers a huge space of blooming : we can use this part of freedom without limits.”

I love fitting perfectly into the box that society and men have designed for me.

"To be a perfect companion, mother, cook and mistress of the house, beautiful and well-dressed, whose family life boils down to a long series of pleasures and who offers her offspring a dream childhood" is easy.

“A feminist analysis in the discipline of design history isn’t of key significance in the process of bringing to light the efforts women have made to shape the world in a more female image in spite of the limitations imposed by economic imperatives and social conventions.”

Not sharing chores is a good way to make everyone feel comfortable in the family.

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c

made in patriarchy

cheryl buckley,1986

IF YOU HAVE A MAJORITY OF

congrats, you are exactly what the society expects from you. Keep it up and you'll be on the next season of Desperate Housewives.

IF YOU HAVE A MAJORITY OF

oops, I think you are discovering that you can think for yourself and get out of the kitchen.

TRUE

TICtacTOE

"[...] So I don't envy Mimi Thorisson's life - her life would make me neurasthenic in ten minutes: I envy the conformity of her aspirations. Rowing against the current makes you tired. It must be so good, so comfortable, so restful to let oneself slip into normality as in a hot bath; to occupy a terrain previously marked out by millions of other women, and perhaps above all by millions of representations of what a woman should be; to take on a role that revives the memory of millions of familiar, reassuring images; to feel approved in what one is and in what one does by centuries of learned or popular culture."

- Mona Cholet

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NO

YES

NO

TRUE

FALSE