Designing Women

Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason · USA · 24 min avg

Set in an Atlanta interior design firm run by two sisters, this beloved 1980s sitcom is celebrated for its sharp feminist commentary. Dixie Carter’s Julia Sugarbaker became iconic for impassioned monologues on women’s rights, Southern identity, and social justice. Note: the ensemble skews 30s–40s; included for its feminist subject matter and Julia Sugarbaker as a model of older-woman authority and voice.

Check it Out

You might also like

Act Like You’re Having a Good Time
Book

Act Like You’re Having a Good Time

Essays on being a mature woman still looking for a life of purpose while popular culture treats her as finished. Weldon is funny about invisibility…

Revolting Women
Book

Revolting Women

Built on original doctoral research into why professional women over fifty are walking out of organizations that spent decades training them. Ryan names the triple…

Kills Well with Others
Book

Kills Well with Others

The sequel to Killers of a Certain Age. Four women assassins, retired and comprehensively underestimated, are pulled back in, and their invisibility to everyone under…

The House by the Sea: A Journal
Book

The House by the Sea: A Journal

Sarton in her mid-sixties, newly settled in a house above the Maine shore, keeping the daily account of weather, flowers, visitors and work that became…

Iona: A Veil of Time Novel
Book

Iona: A Veil of Time Novel

Book three of the Veil of Time series. Drawn once more into eighth-century Scotland, Maggie lands in the middle of a bitter struggle between the…

The Strange Woman
Book

The Strange Woman

In 1621 the Yorkshire poet Edward Fairfax accused seven women from the village of Timble of witchcraft. They were tried twice at York and acquitted…