women’s unseen, unpaid labor
socially enforced gender roles
controlling women through their bodies
lost time, energy and money, as consumerism and capitalism unite to diminish our resources
Part One:
Motherhood
Part Two:
Marks On Our Bodies/Things That Constrain Us
Things That Constrain Us
The Impossible Mandate Of Femininity, No. 1
Accepting Ourselves
We Glance Seductively
Do Not Sit Quietly
Compressed Into Submission
The Impossible Mandate Of Femininity, No. 2
Constricting Our Very Breath
A Public Indecency
Not Feminine
Hobbled By The Constraints Of Femininity
The Impossible Mandate Of Femininity, No. 3
Watch a 30 second video of this work in Unmuted at the Hyde Park Art Center
Part 2:
We are pressured to accept the role of primary or sole caregivers in society, and not compensated for the labor that benefits society. This unpaid labor is not included in economic measures, such as GNP. The devaluation of women, as evidenced by the pay, wealth and power gaps that affect them, causes a general acceptance of the correctness of society’s history of taking women’s labor without compensation.