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Undo Motherhood explores the reasons why a significant number of women around the world today regret becoming mothers. The women in this project love their children and are excellent mothers when judged according to society's standards, and yet they hate the oppressive mother role that robbed them of their own existence and suffer through it in silence, feeling it to be the worst mistake they have made. In this book, Diana Karklin combines two narrative languages: her photography and her interviews with women. It is divided into seven chapters: anger, fear, isolation, exhaustion, guilt, resignation and acceptance. The last chapter stresses the importance of accepting regret in order to be ab...
Milk is a limited series art journal of written and visual artworks by artist-mothers about motherhood. Volume 3 is themed “Purpose & Ambivalence”, and looks at how motherhood can give a deep sense of purpose – to some – and yet it can lead to a range of conflicting, uncertain, or changing emotions. Volume 3 features works by 14 artists from 6 countries. It includes artworks by Fatema Abizar, Lupita Carrasco, Violet Costello, Marice Cumber, Sharon James, Lisa Krannichfeld, Jenny Lewis, Jena Love, Sarah Pabst, Jannike Stelling, Susanne du Toit; an article by Szilvia Molnar; and interviews with Andi Gáldi Vinko and Pragya Agarwal. The cover features a work of embroidery on canvas by Fatema Abizar.
A “fascinating” (The Wall Street Journal), “spirited and inspiring” (Jacobin) tour through the ages in search of the thinkers and communities that have dared to reimagine how we might better live our daily lives. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras—a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics—founded a commune in a seaside village in what’s now southern Italy. The men and women there shared their property, lived as equals, and dedicated themselves to the study of mathematics and the mysteries of the universe. Ever since, humans have been dreaming up better ways to organize how we live together, p...
„Du kannst ja schreiben, wenn es schläft“ ist nur einer der gut gemeinten Ratschläge, die Mütter* in der Wissenschaft häufig zu hören bekommen. Warum es meistens nicht so einfach ist und welche Hindernisse Müttern*, die wissenschaftlich arbeiten auch weit über die Baby- und Kleinkindphase hinaus begegnen, steht im Fokus dieses Buches. Wiebke Vogelaar identifiziert zentrale Herausforderungen der Vereinbarkeit von Care-Arbeit und Wissenschaft und ordnet sie in den Kontext der Muttertätsforschung und der Erfahrungen aus ihren Schreibcoachings ein. Daraus entwickelt sie lebensnahe Handlungsmöglichkeiten, durch die Mütter* sich (wieder) besser selbst verstehen und gestärkt schreiben können.
»Utopia is back!« Thomas Piketty Ob Care-Arbeit, Erziehung oder Bildung: Viele Bereiche unseres Alltags sind ungerecht organisiert – zumeist tragen Frauen die Hauptlast. Sie sollen sich um die Kinder kümmern, den Haushalt besorgen, die kranke Verwandtschaft pflegen und ihre ökonomische Unabhängigkeit doch gefälligst für ein Leben in der Kleinfamilie aufgeben. Im Laufe der Geschichte haben Philosophen, Aktivistinnen und Pioniere nach alternativen Lebensformen gesucht: von den rein weiblichen »Beginenhöfen« im mittelalterlichen Belgien über die matriarchalischen Ökodörfer im heutigen Kolumbien; von der Kommune des Pythagoras bis hin zu Produktions- und Wohngenossenschaften frühsozialistischer Utopisten. Kristen Ghodsee hat zahlreiche inspirierende Beispiele zu einer radikal hoffnungsvollen Vision versammelt. Einige dieser Experimente waren ein kurzes Leuchtfeuer, andere sind der lebende Beweis dafür, dass eine andere Welt möglich ist. Utopien für den Alltag ist auch ein praktischer Leitfaden für alle, die auf der Suche nach Ideen sind, wie wir gleichberechtigter und glücklicher leben können.
Un deslumbrante viaje a través de 2.000 años de audaces ideas y experimentos utópicos que exploran mejores formas de organizar nuestra vida cotidiana, además de un viaje trotamundos a las comunidades que ya están poniendo en práctica estas visiones aparentemente extravagantes en la actualidad. En el siglo VI a.C., el filósofo griego Pitágoras -más recordado hoy por su teorema de los triángulos rectángulos que por su política progresista- fundó una comuna en un pueblo costero del actual sur de Italia. Allí, hombres y mujeres compartían sus propiedades, vivían como iguales y se dedicaban al estudio de las matemáticas y los misterios del universo. Desde entonces, los seres huma...
This lavish book marks the 40th anniversary of Barthes' renowned work Camera Lucida in 2020. Artist Odette England invited 199 of the world's best-known contemporary photographers, writers, critics, curators and art historians to contribute an image or text that reflects on Barthes' unpublished snapshot of his mother, aged five. This snapshot is known as the winter garden photograph. Barthes discusses it at length in Camera Lucida, but never reproduces it. It is one of the most famous unseen photographs in the world.
Documentary photographer and anthropologist Alegra Ally travelled to the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia from October through December 2016 to study and document the Nenet way of life. For thousands of years, indigenous Nenets have lived nomadic lifestyles herding reindeer across the Yamal Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. Lena's family is one of 12,000 Nenets still migrating the same routes as their ancestors have done for centuries. By following the Khudi family, New Path opens a window on Nenet life today, highlighting how they have adjusted to modern life, how their culture evolved in light of recent resource extraction developments, globalization, climate change - factors which both enrich an...
"I grew up in London with a Filipina woman called Juning, who had four children of her own living on a small island in the Philippines 7,000 miles away. Juning's husband left when their children were young, and all financial responsibility for the family fell to her. For several years Juning worked as a nanny in Manila, but in 1974, knowing that a local income could not stretch to cover her children's school fees, she decided to look for work abroad. Her youngest child was two years old when she left for Hong Kong. In 1976 my parents and brother, who was then a year old, moved from London to Hong Kong for my father's work with Barings Bank. My mother soon became pregnant with me, and in the ...
Images In Transition raises questions about the technologies of image making and image transmission, the notion of truth in journalism, and the role of propaganda in news photography.