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Media coverage
Title The Second Shift by Clare Gallagher Media name/outlet The Irish Times Country/Territory Ireland Date 8/02/20 Description The Second Shift by Clare Gallagher
Self-published
No sooner has Clare Gallagher’s quietly furious photobook, The Second Shift, landed when Oxfam Ireland announce women here contribute 38 million hours of unpaid care work every week, and that “sexist economies are enabling a wealthy elite to accumulate vast fortunes at the expense of ordinary people particularly women and girls”. This, 50 years after Second Wave Feminism? Sweet Jesus. A photography lecturer at Belfast School of Art, Gallagher’s third book, named by The Guardian as one of 15 best of 2019, worries away at an on-going dilemma: getting the domestics done, while calling out for resistance to capitalism’s neatest trick – getting us ladies to work for free. Her photos focus tightly on the unacknowledged banal – baskets of overflowing laundry, overstuffed bins, food detritus in the sink, fogged up windows, as well as beautifully tender portraits of her three young sons. There’s a savage poem by Leonita Flynn and Joan Rivers’s fabulous quote: “I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes – and six months later you have to start all over again.” Back to the barricades sisters. Rosita SweetmanProducer/Author Rosita Sweetman URL https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/browser-not-so-tickled-a-biography-of-ken-dodd-that-stays-on-the-surface-1.4160347 Persons Clare Gallagher, Rosita Sweetman