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Author Garbes, Angela, author.

Title Essential labor : mothering as social change / Angela Garbes.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  306.8743 GARBES    DUE 05-13-24
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.874 GARBES    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.874 GARBES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  306.8743 GAR    Missing
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  306.8743 GARBES    Missing
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  306.8743 GA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  306.8743 GA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  PARENT 306.8743 GA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  PARENT 306.8743 GA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 222 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222).
Contents Part I: A personal history of mothering in America -- Mothering as survival -- Mothering as valuable labor -- Mothering as erotic labor -- Mothering as human interdependence -- Part II: Exploring mothering as social change -- Mothering insists on worthiness -- Mothering as encouraging appetites -- Mothering toward movement -- Mothering for pleasure -- Mothering as natural interdependence.
Summary "From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes an investigation into the current state of caregiving in America and an exploration of motherhood as a means of social change"-- Provided by publisher.
The COVID-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is arguably 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 of raising children is devalued in America, the act of mothering offers the radical potential to create a more equitable society. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States.
Motherhood -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Garbes, Angela.
Mothers -- United States -- Social conditions.
Social change -- United States.
Caregivers -- United States.
Caregivers. (OCoLC)fst00847331
Motherhood -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01026911
Motherhood -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01026930
Mothers -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026987
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
ISBN 9780062937360 (hardcover)
0062937367 (hardcover)
9780062937384 electronic publication
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