• “It wasn’t sexism, then” (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 1)

  • May 26 2020
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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“It wasn’t sexism, then” (Polly Platt, The Invisible Woman, Episode 1)

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  • We'll begin with a look at how Polly Platt's legacy was appraised when she died in 2011. Then we'll go back in time to tell Polly's story from the start, beginning with her Revolutionary Road-esque childhood in Europe and America as the neglected daughter of two alcoholics; to her years studying scenic design in environments in which women weren't welcome; the secret pregnancy that halted her formal education, and the early marriage that took her West and cemented her desire to tell stories through design. Throughout, we'll talk about how Platt's experiences, as the product of an American military family of the 1950s—and the daughter of a mother who had been forced to abandon a career for motherhood––shaped her view of gender roles and relations, and her idea of what it meant to be the wife of a important man.

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