Why call it labor? : on motherhood and art work / editor: Mai Abu ElDahab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Abu ElDahab, Mai, editor.

أبو الدهب، مي., editor.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Women artists.

Motherhood and the arts.

Women artists--Interviews.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

80, 77 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

ʻAn ayy waḍʻ yataḥaddathūn? : ḥawla al-umūmah wa-al-ʻamal al-fannī

عن أي وضع يتحدثون؟ : حول الأمومة والعمل الفني

Place of Publication:

Brussels, Belgium : Mophradat ; Berlin, Germany : Archive Books, [2020]

Summary:

This publication presents four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) who discuss their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects. While their reflections represent a similar strata of art worker in terms of background, class, and career trajectory, the impact of instruments of patriarchy on rendering maternity invisible that they describe is recognizable and insidious.

Contents:

Foreword / Mai Abu ElDahab

Ramallah, September to December 2018 / Lara Khaldi

Boston, June 2019 (or "artistic genius is a myth of the colonial patriarchy: part one") / Mary Jirmanus Saba

New York, August 2019 / Mirene Arsanios and Nikki Columbus

Cairo, January 2020 / Basma Alsharif

Athens, January 2020 / Mai Abu ElDahab

About the writers.

Notes:

Editor's name from title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9783948212346

3948212341

OCLC:

1246352985