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A follow-up to coauthor Peter Menzel's lauded Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Women in the Material World once again illuminates the human family--but this time with the focus on women. The result is an arresting collection of photographs, interviews, and anecdotes documenting the day-to-day lives and thoughts of women from 20 different countries. From Albania to India to the United States, we hear the female viewpoint on politics and religion, men and marriage, children and education. Cultural stereotypes are both supported (an Ethiopian mother explains why her daughter must be circumcised) and shattered (the loving equity of an Albanian marriage). The gorgeous accompanying photographs artfully link narrative text with faces and environs, from the rugged peaks of Bhutan to the Mediterranean beaches of Israel. What emerges is a captivating survey of women's lives in the late 20th century, and--even more--a powerful feeling of connectedness with these fellow human beings. --Rebecca Gleason
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In 1994, the Sierra Club published the highly successful Material World: A Global Family Portrait, which presented 30 "statistically average" families from around the world and photographed them outside their homes surrounded by their worldly possessions. This book is a showcase for "woman-kind." D'Aluisio, an award-winning television producer, orchestrated the project, bringing in a team of women photographers and interpreters to facilitate the work with subjects from 20 countries, including Jordan, Albania, Mongolia, Haiti, and the U.S. The statistics about and the interviews with each woman solidify the mainly pictorial presentation. Menzel, photojournalist and creative force behind the Material World projects, captures the great faces and bodies of the women and their families at work (mainly at hard labor in countries outside the U.S.), play, and worship for the full-color photo layouts. "We cannot talk about tradition nowadays," says the woman from Italy, "because it is only a material world." A great book for a wide range of readers and thinkers. Leon Wagner
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The photos themselves are frequently very strong and the imaginative layout provides much interesting and needed information about economics and life styles of women in many countries. For these reasons I did enjoy the book, but I can not whole heartedly recommend it because the project was not sufficiently sauve in cross-cultural representation. The problem with the book is that the photographers, interviers and writers were lacking in cross cultural insight, so I could not really recommend to my friends or family. For example, a more exact title for the book would be "Married (or divorced) heterosexual women with children in the material world," because women without children and/or women in relationships with women were excluded, which implies their experience as women is not not a part of "Women's" experience or worthy of documentation. I found the interviews to be so heavy-handed that they were trite, predicable and therefore not very interesting.
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I read the book, Women in the Material World after I saw the author at a young women's conference last year. I thought the book was great. It showed many women's points of view on life and the way they live. This book made me think about other women and how we are all very different but also the same. I think this book is very truthful and has a beautiful message. There are not many books like this out there so I commend Faith for writing it.
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I was thrilled with this book when I first saw it at a friend's house when I was visiting the US. While trying to recover from burn out syndrome, 'reading' photo books works well for me and I enjoyed this book so much because the photos give an incredibly intimate look into the lives of ordinary people around the globe. They capture both love and despair in an amazing way. However, the interviews could have been a lot better. Other reviewers are right that the chosen families are not as representative as we might wish, but at least that is accounted for and I think understandable. What bugs me most is the American bias: the American woman is asked questions on a totally different level than the others, making the others seem sort of stupid on the one hand and frustrating comparison on the other. And I also would like to have had more information about how the interview was done, if the interviewer spoke the woman's language, what may have gotten lost in the translation etc. Still, a great book to have and I wish I could have been part of the team that made it!
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I think this book was one of the best books I have read!!
This book was terrific. When I read the book MATERIAL WORLD, A GLOBAL FAMILY PORTRAIT, I thought there was no book like it that could be better. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Not culturally lacking afterall
Women in the Material World was written to correct a defect the author percieved in the previous book The Material World: that the women of the families were neglected subjects by... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Interesting look at other women's lives.
After living in ten U.S. states, England and Panama, I am well aware of economical differences between geograpthical areas. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. März 1999 veröffentlicht
It really makes you think
This book really made me think about my life as compared to the lives of women around the world. It was amazing to see how many people lived without electricity and education and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Mai 1998 veröffentlicht
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