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Good girls don’t / Lise Melhorn-Boe

Melhorn-Boe, Lise. Good girls don’t. 1994. 4 spreads. (5 1/2 x 3″). Archives and Special Collections, University of Calgary.

From the artist’s website: Sunbonnet Sue pop-ups, with the Virgin Mary superimposed on them, are surrounded by rules for good girls, such as “Good girls don’t fight back” and “Good girls don’t whine.” Rubber-stamped text and colour-copy transfers on handmade linen paper, which is accordion-folded with a self-cover.

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