Ruby Russell

Doing It All (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering.

'A brilliant book, fearlessly told.' Elinor Cleghorn, author of UNWELL WOMEN

''Lucid and liberating.' Eliane Glaser, author of MOTHERHOOD: A MANIFESTO

Nearly a quarter of UK families with dependent children are single-parent families, and around 90% of single parents are women. Yet the single mother is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent by half.

Tracing a history through Victorian brothels, welfare rights activism and Black feminist traditions of othermothering, Ruby Russell tells a different story: of motherhood defined not by marriage or men, but as a nexus of solidarity beyond the patriarchal status quo.

A personal quest for empowerment, Doing It All is also a fierce critique of the structures that leave single mums marginalised and exhausted - and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected and radically responsible communities.¿¿

'Deftly marrying history with her own story, Russell gives us a vision of single mothers as avatars of a better world. It is a world we can all embrace, and all aspire to.' Kirsten Swinth, author of FEMINISM'S FORGOTTEN FIGHT

'Mightily encourages dreams of a society where mothering is the most important activity of all.' Irish Sunday Independent

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dialogue
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780349702155
• Artikelnr.: 67582811

Autorenporträt

Ruby Russell is writer and editor from London who lives in Berlin with her daughter and their cat. Her journalistic work is mainly on the ecological crisis, its capitalist causes and human consequences.