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Filmmaker Janet Merewether discusses the year she was born and what the situation for women was at the time. The film then shifts to a highly stylised scene of the filmmaker with a suitcase standing outside a toy house and garden. She explains that women like her today can have it all, and wonders why children need be out of reach for them. The filmmaker decides that she will become a solo mother.
Curator’s notes
The contrast of what it was like for women when Merewether was born (in 1965) and what it’s like now is clear – times have definitely changed. Women have benefited from the women’s movement and the struggle in the 1970s and ‘80s over issues of equality, sexuality, family, the workplace and reproductive rights. The filmmaker aged 39 in 2007 has the freedom to choose. She embraces her sexuality and fertility and goes for it.
