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9/1/03

EXHIBITION AT SLU EXPLORES ASPECTS OF MOTHERHOOD

CANTON – A traveling exhibition of over 50 photographs, called Beggars 
and Choosers: Motherhood Is Not a Class Privilege in America, will be in 
the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University through September 
20. In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be a lecture by Rickie 
Solinger, called "Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman" on Wednesday, September 
10, at 7 p.m. in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center.
	Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America is 
associated with the publication of Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of 
Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (Hill and 
Wang, 2001) by prize-winning historian Solinger. She is also the author of Wake 
Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade (Routledge, 1992, 
2000); editor of Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 (University 
of California Press, 1998); and, with Gwendolyn Mink, editor of Welfare: A 
Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics (New York University Press, 
2003).  
	Beggars and Choosers provides images that reflect the strength, dignity 
and determination of mothers who are often defined by public policy and public 
opinion as women who should not reproduce. The exhibition argues that “reproductive 
rights” means claiming the right and the resources to control fertility and 
the right to be a mother.
      The exhibition includes photographs by Jerry Berndt, Roland Freeman, Brenda 
Ann Kenneally, Corky Lee, Susan Meiselas, Regina Montfort, Eli Reed, Joseph 
Rodriguez, Mel Rosenthal, Stephen Shames, Taryn Simon, Clarissa Sligh and 
Deborah Willis, among others. Generous support for Beggars and Choosers has 
been provided by the Open Society Institute, the Birmingham Civil Rights 
Institute and the Puffin Foundation Ltd.
      For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

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