And when something like a global pandemic happens, a lot of those systems go away. You know, we are organized in the United States around nuclear families.and I think we've sort of lost sight of how truly interdependent we all are."įor Garbes, it was a moment for recognizing the systems that have allowed families to be so independent, so non-communal. "And that's the sort of the bigger thing that I started to grapple with. "I think all of us realized in the pandemic that we couldn't do it alone," Garbes said. It's that difficulty - the invisible labor of taking care of her family - that Garbes focused on in her new book, "Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change". And we were really kind of cut off from the rest of the world," Garbes said.
" the first four months of the pandemic.I was home. That's because caring for her family became a central point in her life. And so there was a part of me that just wanted to not have to be pigeonholed."īut when the pandemic began, she decided to double down. "I am aware of the ways in which the stories of women and the experiences of women are pushed to the outside - we center men's experiences. "I was really aware of how women's stories are treated as niche. She initially didn't want to write a second book on motherhood, she said.
Author Angela Garbes' released her first book "Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy" in 2018.
0 kommentar(er)
