Not all women: intersectional representations of women and motherhood

Editors: Oyebode-Westerhuis, B.

Publisher: Amsterdam: TSA & bo-art projects

ISBN: 978-90-9037266-2

Abstract:

Since Nancy Chodorow’s feminist writings on ‘The ‘Reproduction of Mothering’ (1979)* conceptions of gendered identity and motherhood have grown to address intersectional aspects arising from race, ethnicity, disability, or sexual orientation. As an Igbo woman artist, Ngozi Schommers’ work often responds to the tensions arising from different positions and their intersections. Schommers creates her work across Nigeria, Germany and Ghana exploring conceptions of womanhood in these different geographies and from a personal and shared perspective. Through exchanges with other women; strangers on a bus, friends, her mother and grandmother, she combines processes of investigation and research alongside her own artistic practice to revisit notions of motherhood and gendered identities.

Source: Manual