Essential labor mothering as social change

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...

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Main Author: Garbes, Angela (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
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