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- ISBN 9781912836062
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2020
- Publisher: Duckworth Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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'This whimsical project is so satisfyingly of a piece with its subject' Hephzibah Anderson, Observer
One summer, Alice Maddicott was adopted by a beautiful tabby called Dylan, and together they shared six years of loving friendship. Alice collected second-hand photos - orphan images - and in her sadness after Dylan's death, she pored over the old photographs of women and their cats. Cats in gardens, cats on laps, cats in alleys and on steps, accompanied by women who were diffident and affectionate, fierce and whimsical, young and old.
What did these cats mean to the women who cared for them? Why have cat-owning women always been viewed with suspicion? And where did the Crazy Cat Lady stereotype emerge from, when other cultures revere rather than fear this relationship? Examining these questions and many more, Cat Women is a moving exploration of wild natures and domestic affections.
Alice Maddicott is a writer and artist from the West Country, where she also works on creative learning projects, currently for The Salisbury Museum. She has published poetry and received site-specific art commissions. Her non-fiction books are the illustrated essay Cat Women: An Exploration of Feline Friendships and Lingering Superstitions and Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place.
