Artist’s Book

Failed Southern Ladies

Cattywampus Press

Published 2017 and 2020

Hand sewn and paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 48 pages | 34 photographs | Edition of 100

A Pictorial Exploration of Feminity in the Mid-Century American South, this hand-bound artist’s book contains 34 black and white photographs taken by FSA period photographers and several women’s studies scholar’s opinions about what it means to be a woman from the South. Inspired by the garments worn in the photographs, each book has a different feed sack pattern for the cover, but the interiors are all the same.