New York University Press, the publishers of BUN IN THE OVEN, asked me to write something in honor of Women's History Month --
Women’s History – Rethinking Birth and Food.
It’s Women’s History Month! Let’s celebrate! Honor the first woman tenured at Harvard! First woman to win the Nobel prize! First woman astronaut! First woman whose art hangs in MOMA! First woman surgeon! First woman subway car driver! First woman chef! First woman architect! First woman Obstetrician! First woman….
Or wait a sec. Are we celebrating the first woman to DO something, or the first woman to be recognized and acknowledged for doing it? There surely were women artists before MOMA cared, women designing their homes, writing books, making dinner, catching babies… And wait another sec here – how did so many things that women do, across time and space, like catching babies and making dinner, get turned into award-winning accomplishments when men did them, and quiet back-room work when women do them?
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