Designing Motherhood at the Mütter Museum - Student Ticket Giveaway

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Designing Motherhood at the Mütter Museum - Student Ticket Giveaway

View Designing Motherhood at the Mütter Museum! Reserve a free ticket by Sunday, August 8!

By Jefferson Humanities & Health

Date and time

Sunday, August 8, 2021 · 12 - 1pm EDT

Location

Mütter Museum

19 S 22nd St Philadelphia, PA 19103

About this event

Designing Motherhood—exhibition, book, and series of public programs—is a first-of-its-kind consideration of the arc of human reproduction through the lens of design. The Designing Motherhood exhibit is currently on display at the M¨utter Museum and Jefferson Humanities & Health has some tickets to offer to Jefferson students to use on your own time.

Register through Eventbrite by Sunday, August 8 to reserve a free, physical ticket. Tickets are for Jefferson students only; supplies limited/first come, first served. Students will be contacted about how to pick up their ticket on Jefferson's Center City campus the second week of August.

About the Exhibit

Design impacts each step in the arc of human reproduction, from the intrauterine device that prevents the process of fertilizing an egg, to the midwife who advocates for culturally appropriate care or the breast pump flange that helps produce, gather, and store breast milk.

But who shapes these designs? Some of the objects and systems you’ll encounter in this exhibition are the product of medical knowledge that was once guarded, like the forceps, while others have been shaped by dire need and collective political will, like the at-home abortion kit and women’s health zines. Still others have been conceived by feminist engineers frustrated at the lack of innovation in designs for reproductive health, such as the twenty-first-century silicone pessary.

While being born is a universal human experience, the designs that shape it are not. Many remain taboo, rarely considered, and inaccessible to many. Designing Motherhood invites you to consider why and how we have developed designs to facilitate reproductive health, and to ponder the political, economic, and social implications of how we medicalize reproduction. These are not just women’s issues. They are human issues. They matter to us all.

Questions? Contact Matilda Ostow, Humanities Program Coordinator, at Matilda.Ostow@jefferson.edu.

Featured image: Maternity Care Coalition staff serving their clients in Philadelphia, 1980s. Courtesy of MCC and the University of Pennsylvania Library Archives (MSColl760, Box 44, Folder 56).

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