Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
{"id":7957937062124,"title":"Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change","handle":"essential-labor-mothering-as-social-change","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike a Mother\u003c\/em\u003e comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers—and the lack of a social safety net to support them—writer Angela\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eGarbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEssential Labor,\u003c\/em\u003e Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context—the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGarbes contends that while the labor of raising children is devalued in America, the act of mothering offers the radical potential to create a more equitable society. In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEssential Labor, \u003c\/em\u003eGarbes reframes the physically and mentally draining work of meeting a child's bodily and emotional needs as opportunities to find meaning, to nurture a deeper sense of self, pleasure, and belonging. 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