This unique book creatively interprets one woman's journey through a hysterectomy.
It challenges conventional perception and asks questions as to how,
with imagination and creativity, a woman can take some personal control over this often traumatic
medical procedure on the feminine body and psyche.
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Look inside Hysterectic
cherry smyth poet and art critic
This is a skilful, resonant documentation of a woman's determination to humanise and feminise the dehumanising and defeminising
experience of having a hysterectomy. It is a stunning, affecting, unforgettable piece of work that deserves to be seen widely not just by girls and women,
but by men who care for them and also came from that intimate source.
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Whitefield follows in the venerable and vulnerable footsteps of artists like Jo Spence, Helen Chadwick and Hannah Wilke, who chartered
their bodies' visceral experiences through photographs. Using the form of a visual diary, she leads us (and herself) through the tentative steps of
the admission to hospital, the pre-op prep and the results.
Linking hysteria, Hippocrates, poetry and the art of photography, she explores the ordinary and extraordinary worlds of this emotional, mental
and physical body experience resulting in a rich photographic exhibition and poetic book that blends fairytale with reality.