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Doing it all : the social power of single motherhood / Ruby Russell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Seal Press, 2024Description: 326 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541602199
  • 1541602196
Other title:
  • Social power of single motherhood
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Contents:
Conception -- I love men; I just don't want one of my own -- Half-lives of the nuclear family -- Capitalism hates mums -- Choice and circumstance -- Whores and welfare queens -- Activists and othermothers -- Matrixes of love -- The post-capitalist family -- Mother ungendered.
Summary: "A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. Nearly a quarter of UK families with dependent children are single-parent families, and around 90% of single parents are women. Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good. In Doing It All, journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story, of single mothering independent of wifedom, not broken or defined by loss but powerful in its own right. She finds narratives of liberation in Victorian brothels and postwar British slums, in Black feminist theory and the grassroots activism of women fighting for welfare rights. Doing It All is a personal quest for empowerment, a fierce critique of the systems that leave single moms marginalized and exhausted, and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected, and radically responsible communities"--Publisher's description.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction New 306.8743 R966 Available 33111011472848
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 306.8743 R966 Available 33111011356728
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering



In the United States, one child in five is raised by a single mother. Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good.   

In Doing It All ,journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story, of single mothering not defined by loss but whole and powerful in its own right. She finds narratives of liberation in Victorian brothels and postwar British slums, in Black feminist theory and the grassroots activism of women fighting for welfare rights.

Doing It All is a personal quest for empowerment, a fierce critique of the systems that leave single moms marginalized and exhausted, and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected, and radically responsible communities.  

Originally published in 2024 by Dialogue Books in Great Britain.

Conception -- I love men; I just don't want one of my own -- Half-lives of the nuclear family -- Capitalism hates mums -- Choice and circumstance -- Whores and welfare queens -- Activists and othermothers -- Matrixes of love -- The post-capitalist family -- Mother ungendered.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324).

"A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. Nearly a quarter of UK families with dependent children are single-parent families, and around 90% of single parents are women. Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good. In Doing It All, journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story, of single mothering independent of wifedom, not broken or defined by loss but powerful in its own right. She finds narratives of liberation in Victorian brothels and postwar British slums, in Black feminist theory and the grassroots activism of women fighting for welfare rights. Doing It All is a personal quest for empowerment, a fierce critique of the systems that leave single moms marginalized and exhausted, and a call to reclaim mothering as the life force of sustainable, connected, and radically responsible communities"--Publisher's description.

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