Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is arguable the most essential work humans do. Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a rigorously reported look at what mother is, and can be. She contends that while the labor or raising... Full description
- Part I: A personal history of mothering in America
- Mothering as survival
- Mothering as valuable labor
- Mothering as erotic labor
- Mothering as human interdependence
- Part II: Exploring mothering as social change
- Mothering insists on worthiness
- Mothering as encouraging appetites
- Mothering toward movement
- Mothering for pleasure
- Mothering as natural interdependence.