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portada A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
416
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
ISBN13
9780593472705

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

Elinor Cleghorn (Author) · Penguin · Hardcover

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering - Elinor Cleghorn

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Synopsis "A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering"

From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.

Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the stories of the past. Patriarchal control of motherhood has relegated the acts of growing, birthing, nurturing, and loving to the sidelines, and deemed it unimportant, women's work. Now, through the voices of women themselves, Elinor Cleghorn reclaims and retells the history of motherhood, showcasing the mothers, othermothers, midwives, activists, community leaders, and more who have shaped the course of history.

Beginning in the ancient world, we encounter a figurine made for a childbirth ritual over three thousand years ago. We meet extraordinary writers and poets, like Anne Bradstreet and Elizabeth Jocelin, who were expressing their innermost feelings about motherhood. During the seventeenth century, in the streets of London, we encounter unmarried mothers struggling against stigma and shame, and the women who strove to help them. Later, pioneers like Mary Wollstonecraft laid the intellectual foundation for the liberation of motherhood from male control, and the abhorrent treatment of enslaved mothers was brought to public attention by courageous activists like Sojourner Truth. These and many other brave characters lobbied for mothers of all classes and circumstances to be valued, respected, and supported--not as reproductive vessels, but as people.

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