Motherhood in the 1960s made maintenance work culturally invisible
Evidence
Ukeles’s interest in maintenance was partly occasioned by her becoming a mother in the 1960s. In an interview, she explained, “Being a mother entails an enormous amount of repetitive tasks. I became a maintenance worker. I felt completely abandoned by my culture because it didn’t have a way to incorporate sustaining work.” — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 116
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SHARE: Ukeles’s own words on her manifesto’s origin are exactly the kind of thing a person deep into maintenance art would want to see.
Related
- Motherhood made Ukeles see maintenance as culturally abandoned work (similarity 0.93)