Heinz and Judy, a play
By Janet Zweig, Boston (Photographic Resource Center), 1985.
Texts are excerpted from: Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg (dilemmas), The Moral Development of the Child by Jean Piaget (stories), In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan (responses at intermission)".
Janet Zweig: "This book combines the classic Punch and Judy text and overlays it with three layers of imagery: First, there are slips of paper with excerpts from studies of morality and gender by Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, and Carol Gilligan. Next there are drawings in crayon, ink, and other substances as if someone was marking directly on the book, and finally there is an overlay of a shadow play that falls on each entire spread…”
Sheherezade
A flip book by Janet Zweig, with text by Holly Anderson.
Boston, (Photographic Resource Center), 1988.
Janet Zweig: "The 9th Century character in the 1001 Nights, told stories within stories in order to save her own life. ‘Sheherezade, the flip book’, is an exploration of recursion, of things within things. Zweig asked the writer Holly Anderson to write five stories, each nested within the next, about women revealing or withholding information. The book flips to reveal each story inside the letterforms of the previous story. The unique spelling of the name is meant to unfold the phrases: ‘She here,’ ‘She her,’ ‘She he,’ ‘She,’ successively…”
interruption: a list of words and phrases
By Julie Graves Krishnaswami, New Haven, Connecticut
Julie Graves Krishnaswami: "Women speaking in official and public settings face the challenge of near constant interruption. Looking at the most esteemed experts in their profession - for example, former Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg - even they are interrupted like the rest of us. The text and form presented here abstracts some of these interruptions made in a very public setting: female nominees testifying before the US Senate Judiciary Committee…"