The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
The Midwife’s Archive
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The Midwife’s Archive

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The midwife’s archives are the collections of Elsy Salomonsson: hundreds of brochures, photos and personal notes that she col­lected, wrote, and kept from her time working as a Swedish midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s.

Being a midwife in Tunisia in the 1970s meant being at the center of what was considered to be a key in the shaping of the Modern Tunisian woman, and of the modern nation: family planning.  Elsy’s collected brochures, clinical material and newspaper cuts, allow us to dive into the discourse and imagery around women’s bodies, sexuality and reproduction, an ideal of the modern family, and how it was represented as the condition for the prosperity and development of the newly independent nation.




Size: 345 x 255 mm 
Pages: 162 
Format: hardcover 
Language: English 
Illustration: ca 84 mostly in colour 
Editors: Samira Bouabana, Edith Ekström, Mayssa Rekhis, Lawen Mohtadi
Text: Mayssa Rekhis, Elsy Salomonsson, Samira Bouabana 
Book design: Samira Bouabana, Edith Ekström
 Printing: By Wind 
Publisher: Self-published Pub 
Year: 2024 

ISBN 13: 9789153105329


About:
Samira Bouabana is a Swedish-Tunisian graphic designer, educator, publisher and director. Based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her design practice spans across a wide range of areas: design commissions, self initiated projects, book publishing, lecturing and teaching. Founder of design studio Hjärta Smärta (2001–2011) and design history project Hall of Femmes (2009–), publisher of, so far, ten books about women designers. Between 2014 and 2024 she was a senior lecturer and program director of the Visual communication program at Beckmans College of Design. 
Mayssa Rekhis is a Tunisian anthropologist, educator, activist, writer, and medical doctor, with more than 12 years of professional 
and volunteering experience in non-profit, non- and inter-governmental organizations in the fields of health, human rights, and migration in 
North Africa, South West Asia, and Europe. Her areas of expertise include Mental Health, Sexual and Reproductive health, and Critical Medical Anthropology. She is currently working as a Global Public Health lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and directing the interdisciplinary Global Health program.

Edith Ekström is a Swedish graphic designer based in Stockholm. She has a BA in graphic design and illustration from Konstfack University and Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Apart from working as an assistant designer to Samira Bouabana, she runs her own practice, focusing on commissions and projects within the cultural field. She also works with self initiated projects, often based on themes connected to publishing, archiving and memory. 

Lawen Mohtadi is a Swedish writer, editor and documentary film­maker. She is the author of the award winning book The Day I am Free, a biography on the Swedish-Roma writer and activist Katarina Taikon. She subsequently co-directed the documentary film Taikon, which was released in 2015 and based on her book. Between 2015 and 2021 she was a Senior Editor at the publishing house Natur & Kultur in Stockholm, and is currently a Project Manager at the Swedish History Museum.

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