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Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
What I am saying is that the current system prevents many mothers from leaving their paid work to care for their own kids, and for those who want to work and continue their careers during pregnancy and early motherhood, they encounter unnecessary and impossible challenges. In both situations, women are disproportionately affected by a labour market
... See moreJoeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Seeking reassurance during that first year of parenting two, I turned to the work of the pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the “good-enough mother,” the caregiver who, through sometimes failing and frustrating their child, ultimately facilitates the development of the child’s ability to co
... See moreJessie Munton • Slaves to Love | The Point Magazine
The sector of the American economy devoted to care—of children and the elderly and people with disabilities—is valued at $648 billion. That’s larger than the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. And yet most individual caregivers are criminally underpaid. That’s because caregiving is viewed either as a “labor of love,” in which case it can never be priced... See more