Family
Subtitle: a book
By: by Rita MacDonald
Contributors: Women's Studio Workshop; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Women's Studio Workshop
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Rosendale, New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Families in art; Sex role in art; Gender identity in art; Artists' books
Notes: Accordion-folded book housed in a wooden box designed as a front door that opens with a ribbon pull tab. Illustrations are of household tools or utensils which are meant to represent family members--hammer represents father, spatula represents mother, screwdriver represents brother, scissors represents sister. These four tools are overlaid on dictionary-style definitions of each family member. The book suggests that the family unit has preconceived gender and sex roles for each family member, which serve as a tool of socialization and sterotype beyond the family.

Issued in an edition of 100, numbered and signed by the artist.

LC has copy number 64, signed by artist.

Description and digital images of this object available on the Women's Studio Workshop Archive website: http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_item.php?ID=166