width“You are slaves of the country,” the bold headline yelled to readers. Slightly smaller: “Housewife: A terrible job” and: “Kitchen, kids, crisis”. PZ is the name of this tabloid. Suddenly thousands of tabloids were displayed for free on local trains, schools and public buildings fifty years ago. Unlike Bild-Zeitung or Express, PZ appears in expensive gravure printing. On the cover is a color photo of an unequal couple: a naked man crouching on the floor in a submissive posture, led by a woman in black on a short dog leash. Title: “Tomorrow’s reality?” This is just the beginning of a series of images taken by Charles Wilp, at the end of which the situation is reversed.
In 1971, all this was unheard of: a magazine devoted to gender roles and family-work coordination, successful women’s careers, female political activism or sexual revolution (“the pill frees women”)-all this please pay attention , Before admitting that “I had an abortion”, Simone de Beauvoir Three months later, 342 French women will publish articles in the “New Observer”, which may be the most important indicator of the political agenda of the New Women’s Movement.
