Waubonsee Community College

Clotheslines, by Roberta Cantow

eng

videorecording

For High School; College; Adult audiences

Clotheslines

electronic resource

747796853

by Roberta Cantow

32

With verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and hear the voices - some proud, some angry, some wistful - we realize that doing laundry calls forth deep feel- ings about one s role in life. Some remember when their mothers and grandmothers tackled the same chores using washtubs and washboards, or even river streams. This engaging film pays homage to the commonality of women s experience

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