Author: Faith D'Aluisio;
photographer: Peter Menzel
Under the direction of former television
producer Faith D'Aluisio, a team of
female photojournalists and interviewers
was formed to take a closer look at
the lives of women on the eve of the
21st century. The rewarding result
is a multicultural portrait in words
and images that illuminates the hopes,
dreams, sorrows, and joys of women
around the world.
A companion to Material
World: A Global Family Portrait,
this book is a multicultural odyssey
in words and images that illuminates
the hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows
of women the world over. A testament
to the imdomitable power of the human
spirit, Women in the Material
World portrays the startling
differences and striking similarities
in women's lives at the start of the
twenty-first century.
From Publishers Weekly
The lives of women in 20 diverse countries are spotlighted in this beautiful
and moving photo-essay, an offshoot of Menzel's Material World: A Global
Family Portrait. In Russia, Zhanna Kapsalova, still recovering from the
Christmastime 1993 murder of her husband, shuttles frantically between
two teaching jobs. In Ethiopia, Zenebu Tulu, who was kidnapped into marriage
by her future husband, explains that having regular, unwanted pregnancies
is an unavoidable fact of life, and she resourcefully makes the best of
her situation. In Albania, Hanke Cakoni bathes her severely disabled seven-year-old
son, then makes lunch before her three other children return from school,
while the family's goats wander through the house. "In our country
women are treated as one step beneath men," she says, a sentiment
often echoed in the interviews with women in China, Italy, India, Japan,
the U.S., Jordan, Israel, Mali, South Africa, Mongolia, Thailand, Bhutan,
Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti and Guatemala. A unique, revealing, multicultural
celebration of women's invisible role in societies around the world. (Sept.)
FYI: D'Aluisio, a former TV news producer in Houston (now living in California),
and Menzel, a photographer for Life and Smithsonian, led a team of female
photojournalists and interpreters to compile the interviews and 375 color
photos.
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