Motherhood

A Manifesto

Motherhood
Eliane Glaser
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NZ$ 42.99
Hardback
h222 x 141mm - 240pg
27 May 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780008311889
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' Brilliant' Jenni Murray ' Liberating, intoxicating' Zoe Williams ' Why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much harder than it needs to be? ' Before they become mothers, women are repeatedly reminded that their biological clock is ticking. Once pregnant, a woman' s body becomes public property: she is patronised, panicked, and forbidden from exercising her autonomy. In labour, women' s wishes are overridden, resulting in potentially life-changing injuries and trauma. When the baby comes home, women begin a life of pay cuts, lost job opportunities, heavier housework, unequal emotional loads, and judgement from all sides. State support and family networks have fallen away, and mothers are censured for every ' choice' they make - if they are given real choices at all. In this searing and vital book, Eliane Glaser asks why mothers are idealised, yet treated so poorly; why campaigns for mothers have become so unfashionable; and what we need to do to shift the needle and improve the business of child-rearing for everyone.
' Brilliant: at last a young mother brave enough to challenge the Madonna myth' Jenni Murray' It stopped me in my tracks to see so many things that are never said about the profundity, the consequence, the unprettiness of the maternal experience. Radical honesty is a political act, and also a liberating, intoxicating read' Zoe Williams' Startling, provocative and rigorous, this book explains why mothers are so furious and so tired (SO tired!) and how things might change' Samantha Ellis, author of Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life' Eliane Glaser brilliantly blends analysis of the all too contemporary injustices of motherhood with a historical perspective, emerging with fresh and vivid insights articulated with verve and wit' Rebecca Asher, author of Man Up: Boys, Men and Breaking the Male Rules
Eliane Glaser, author of Get Real, is also a radio producer, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her book on Judaism without Jews was one of the Jewish Chronicle' s ' Books of the Year' in 2007, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Humanist, the Financial Times, History Today, BBC History Magazine, Forward magazine in the US, the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Quarterly.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008311889
Published: 27 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 141mm
Spine: 31mm
Weight: 420g
Pages: 240

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