
Fem
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

Working Mother Part 1

Working Mother Part 2


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.