My scholarship on taken-for-granted aspects of women’s labor, household work, and dress, has much in common with my drawings and prints, which depict ordinary but often unnoticed objects and settings. Many of my images evoke the past as it is conveyed in photographs and cinema. Though they are not “peopled” they have a human dimension; images of pipes, furnaces, and water towers are metaphors for bodily plumbing and psyches, which are often unseen and unfelt and both efficient and problematic. Prints of the Statue of Liberty are of souvenir models, purchased by tourists to evoke memories of their visit.

I am a native New Yorker living with my husband on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In the early 1960s I studied painting and drawing in NYC and at UC, Berkeley. After joining NY Radical Feminists (1967) I decided to learn about woman’s history. I earned a PhD (New School for Social Research, Sociology, 1978) and taught, researched, and published two books and numerous essays on US workingwomen’s history. In the mid 1990’s I returned to art, became a printmaker, and exhibited prints and drawings in the NY area. My memoir, Souvenir (2018), is illustrated by my drawings and prints.