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Beggars and Choosers

Through March 22, one-woman play by Claudia Stevens March 22, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, East Main Street, Collegeville, PA, 610-409-3500.


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Published: Feb 5, 2008

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A black man and a woman are serious contenders for the presidency. Issues of race, gender and class should be bubbling increasingly to the surface. But are they? For years now, historian Rickie Solinger has wondered why our society is progressive in so many ways, yet continues, in her view, to jettison the voices of mothers who don't happen to fall into the right categories. Married. Home-owning. Financially solvent. Fully abled. Solinger has curated a show of more than 50 photographs that reveal the other side of the story. "Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America" raises questions about fair wages, health care, social status and myriad cultural issues inextricably tied to raising children in the United States. Most clearly, though, the photos show that no political or economic situation, not disability, not prison, not poverty, alters the bond between its subjects. In the end, these are mothers and children living their lives and expressing their love.

Through March 22, one-woman play by Claudia Stevens March 22, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, East Main Street, Collegeville, PA, 610-409-3500.