Coinciding with the growth of the Women’s Movement in the United States, in 1972 Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the US Constitution to the states for ratification. Opposition from conservative women’s and labor groups undermined support and not enough states ratified it. What the ERA did not accomplish constitutionally, Odette Teel and friends asserted through the oft-quilted Sunbonnet Sue pattern. More than 40 women from Walnut Creek, California to Leicester, England depicted many poses of Sue as a woman free of the restrictions society had placed on women for centuries.

Title: 
Ms. Sue: Alive & Liberated
Maker: 
Odette Goodman Teel and the Friendly Quilters
1984
1986
California
United States
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International Quilt Museum, Gift of Odette Teel
2008.010.0001