Vanja Bucan
Birds of Paradise
addresses women’s role as domestic workers and points out the invisibility and devalued routine house work. Women are historically sculpted as housekeepers, a position which did not change throughout history and has been a pillar of patriarchal norms and home economy up to this date.The placement of women in the kitchen, doing unpaid work, is a manifest of economic domination, which is patriarchy’s most powerful tool.