Relevant artist films and videos from the Summer School will be uploaded on this webpage as the week progresses, so please check this page throughout the Summer School for links to new resources.
Videos and Recordings
Link to download BRC’s Tour - Text Panels
Watch BRC showreel of artist films
(Password: Punan1Punan1)
Watch ‘Mothership’ by Sarah Lawton
(Password: Birth Rites Summer School 2025)
Watch ‘Microbiome’ by François-Joseph LaPointe
Watch ‘Come Home’ by Marta Stysiak
(Password: birthrites2021)
Watch ‘Anamnesis : The Amulet’ by Marie Brett
Watch ‘What Do Women Talk About?’ by Jaygo Bloom
Watch ‘Ola, A Film by her Father’ by Barbara Rosenthal and Bill Creston
Watch ‘Unborn’ by Puck Verkade (Password: Pandemic)
Watch ‘Unspoken Beginnings: Poetic Reflections on Black Women's Pre-Term Births’ by Courtney Conrad (link will appear on 25/06/2025)
Online Summer School Recordings July 2025
These will be added in chronological order as they are recorded.
Bibliography
Books, Essays and Memoirs:
Reproductive Politics & Feminist Theory
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution – Adrienne Rich
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging – Lucy van de Wiel
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction – Emily Martin
Full Surrogacy Now – Sophie Lewis
The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History – Emma L.E. Rees
Our Bodies, Ourselves – Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin
Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin
The Midwives Book – Jane Sharp
Philosophy, Time & Subjectivity
Enduring Time – Lisa Baraitser
The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption – El Putnam
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype – Erich Neumann
Photography & Visual Culture
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs – Sally Mann
Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood – Edited by Susan Bright
Portraits – Rineke Dijkstra
Hidden Mothers – Clare Hughes (Photographic Project on Hyperemesis Gravidarum)
Maternal Aesthetics, Art & Creative Practice
Post-Partum Document – Mary Kelly
Deeper in the Pyramid – Melanie Jackson and Esther Leslie
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art – Elena Marchevska & Valerie Walkerdine
Maternal Bodies in the Visual Arts – Rosemary Betterton
Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity – Rachel Epp Buller & Charles Reeve
Feminist Art and the Maternal – Andrea Liss
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother – Katerina Bosse
From the Centre: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art – Lucy Lippard
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking – Catherine McCormack
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – Hettie Judah
Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births – Michelle Millar Fisher & Amber Winick
Tracey Emin – Carl Freedman
Podcasts
Woman Up! – Amy Dignam and Susan Merrick
Conceiving Pregnancy – LRB Podcast (16 April 2025)
Historian Erin Maglaque discusses historical and evolving understandings of conception, from 16th-century astrology to 20th-century frog pregnancy tests and modern-day practices.
Watch: Freezing Fertility – Documentary on reproductive technology and gender politics
Recent & Upcoming Publications
Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care – Dennis ter Wal (2025, Valiz)
— Includes contributions from diverse voices and reflects on the myths, politics, and poetics of motherhood.
Projects, Initiatives & Communities
MAMSIE – Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics
Cultural Reproducers – Artist-mother network and platform
Procreate Projects – Supporting artists who are mothers