Imágenes de mujeres que trabajan
ISSN: 2530-447X, 2530-4488
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: Mujeres / Trabajos / Artes / Tecnologías
Issue: 4
Pages: 154-161
Type: Article
More publications in: Accesos: prácticas artísticas y formas de conocimiento contemporáneas
Abstract
This essay approaches reproductive labour, by providing a comparative study of advertisements, cinematographic productions and artistic proposals, from the 1940s to the present. The first part analyzes the strategies that Birgit Jürgennsen and Martha Rosler used to respond critically to the mystified image of women promoted by magazines and companies such as General Motors or General Electric, throughout the twentieth century. The second part explores, through the works of Raquel Friera, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Carmen Winant, the need to acknowledge the social magnitude of reproductive labor. The text ends by contrasting the confined space of the home with the open landscape. The images of the "ovulars" and Justine Kurland reveal the possibility of fabricating new narratives.