A Sydney Covid-19 lockdown research rabbithole from 2021 finally resulted in a publication:

My article - "Co-option or Recognition? Second-wave Feminist Politics and the Frigidaire Australia Women’s Design Conference, 1980" has been accepted by the Journal of Design History and will be available in a little while (happy to share).

It's an odd one for me... not usually a research direction I take but lockdown did strange things to everyone. For me - I got stuck into the archives of the Australian Women's Weekly from the 1980s. In 1980 Frigidaire sought the views of supposedly "ordinary Australian women" to design their new range of refrigerators...

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