Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Shilling, Chelsey, photographer.
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| Notes: | "Photography, Chelsey Shilling ... Set in Minion Pro, made on a Mac Book Pro with InDesign 6. Printed with Lulu.com"--Colophon.
"Digital printing. Case bound with glossy colored hardcovers Signed by the artist on the title page ... This hardcover edition of 'The Presence of Their Absence' takes the form of a photographic essay accompanied by an autobiographical text describing Schaer's experience as a woman without children, and a survey of hostile attitudes toward this status ... based on a portfolio of photographic work of the same name. The portfolio of 19 prints, an edition of 3, was created around 'Baby (Not) On Board: The Final Prejudice?', an installation of hyper-realistic dolls and mannequins dressed in baby dresses and rompers embroidered with critical quotes said to women without children"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015.
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| Summary: | "[A]n account of my journey through childlessness both as I've experienced it and as I've seen it expressed in places where comments like 'Childless women lack an essential humanity' represent a widespread belief. Many cultures resent, disparage, and discriminate against childless women, and in extreme cases drive them to suicide. 'The Presence of Their Absence' is a window into that point of view ... explores the disparagement of childlessness and childless women by the maternal establishment, a reigning cultural norm in virtually every country and historical era. Non maternity, whether chosen or imposed by circumstance, falls outside the biological ideal, usually to its disadvantage. Childless, or child-free, women throughout the world face a spectrum of cultural disdain that ranges from simple disrespect to explicit hostility"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015.
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