Born Linda Mulvey in 1954 in Liverpool, Linder Sterling – radical feminist and prominent figure of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene (amongst other things she co-founded in 1978 the post-punk group Ludus) – is well known for her simple and crude montages, which combined images taken from pornographic magazines with images from women’s fashion and domestic magazines.
Influenced by Dada and more directly from the poetry of Penélope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove, his works reveal us the role of women of the ’70s as played by magazines: a superficially female image, in the dichotomy between housewife role and that of erotic object.

” It makes me laugh when people like Gaga appropriate my ideas without understanding my intentions. But I guess it is flattering. Morrissey recently visited Lady Gaga after one of her shows. On her dressing room wall, in a silver Gothic frame, was a print of the collage that I made in 1977 of a woman with an iron as her head and smiling mouths over the nipples. Lady Gaga said to Morrissey, “I always decorate my dressing room with the images that I like.” If that collage is one of Gaga’s icons of inspiration — and we all need them, as much as air and water — then that’s great. But feminist history isn’t just a dressing-up box. Feigned cultural amnesia is never very attractive.”