Motherhood

Feminism's Unfinished Business

By: Eliane Glaser

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Paperback | 29 November 2022

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‘Why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much harder than it needs to be?’

Before they become mothers, women are repeatedly reminded that their biological clock is ticking. Once pregnant, a woman’s body becomes public property: she is patronised, panicked, and forbidden from exercising her autonomy. In labour, women’s wishes are overridden, resulting in potentially life-changing injuries and trauma.

When the baby comes home, women begin a life of pay cuts, lost job opportunities, heavier housework, unequal emotional loads, and judgement from all sides. State support and family networks have fallen away, and mothers are censured for every ‘choice’ they make – if they are given real choices at all.

In this searing and vital book, Eliane Glaser asks why mothers are idealised, yet treated so poorly; why campaigns for mothers have become so unfashionable; and what we need to do to shift the needle and improve the business of child-rearing for everyone.

About the Author

Eliane Glaser, author of Get Real, is also a radio producer, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her book on Judaism without Jews was one of the Jewish Chronicle’s ‘Books of the Year’ in 2007, and her articles have appeared in the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Humanist, the Financial Times, History Today, BBC History Magazine, Forward magazine in the US, the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish Quarterly.

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