Samira Bouabana: The Midwife’s Archive
€48
Keyword: 1970´s, maternal health care, Tunisia, archive, Swedish graphic designer
Size: 345 x 255 mmPages: 162
Format: hardcover
Language: English
Illustration: ca 84 mostly in colour Editor: Samira Bouabana, Edith Ekström
Text: Mayssa Rekhis, Elsy Salomonsson, Samira Bouabana Book design: Samira Bouabana, Edith Ekström
Printing: By Wind
Publisher: Self-published
Pub Year: 2024
Weight: 1130 gr
ISBN 13: 9789153105329
Description
Article no.: 9789153105329
AWARDED SVENSK BOKKONST 2024 - Best Swedish book design
The Midwife's Archive is a book about 1970's Tunisia, seen through the eyes of a Swedish midwife. The book contains documentation that the midwife left behind, in the shape of printed material, her own texts and pictures.From the publisher:
The midwife’s archives are the collections of Elsy Salomonsson: hundreds of brochures, photos and personal notes that she collected, wrote, and kept from her time working as a Swedish midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s.
Being a midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s meant being at the center of what was considered to be a key in the shaping of the Modern Tunisian woman, and of the modern nation: family planning. Elsy’s collected brochures, clinical material and newspaper cuts, allow us to dive into the discourse and imagery around women’s bodies, sexuality and reproduction, an ideal of the modern family, and how it was represented as the condition for the prosperity and development of the newly independent nation.