The Presence of Their Absence
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Presentation by Miriam Schaer on the panel Childfree: Conversations About Choice, Circumstance, and Ambivalence, at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago, IL on Thursday December 5. For more information, http://bit.ly/1ayBXtW
The Presence of Their Absence
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- 18. What would your life look like with children? Without children? Where do you see yourself in five years? What is your definition of family? How do we, as women, contribute to the world? What are you most proud of?
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Editor's Notes
- #6: Conversation on nanomajority.com
- #7: Conversation around Baby (not) on Babble.com
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- #18: In the context of the latest discourse on social realm based art by Claire Bishop and Grant Kester, the project complicates the issue around authorship and outcomes.
- #19: In January, I was in the Republic of Georgia leading workshops for women about personal expression-making artist books from felt. I tried to get some of the women to speak with me about childlessness, but without success. I returned in June and, with Ida Bakzuradize, a local coordinator, issued a call for participation. I consulted several ethnographic texts and with artists who have worked this way to draft questions for anyone who might speaking with me. These are some of the questions.
- #21: I purchased Georgian baby garments at the Tbilisi market. One woman said they reminded her of her Soviet childhood. .
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