‘Brilliant’ Jenni Murray‘Liberating, intoxicating’ Zoe Williams‘Brilliant’ Jenni Murray‘Liberating, intoxicating’ Zoe Williams‘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.‘Brilliant: at last a young mother brave enough to challenge the Madonna myth’ Jenni Murray‘It stopped me in my tracks to see so many things that are never said about the profundity, the consequence, the unprettiness of the maternal experience. Radical honesty is a political act, and also a liberating, intoxicating read’ Zoe Williams‘Startling, provocative and rigorous, this book explains why mothers are so furious and so tired (SO tired!) and how things might change’ Samantha Ellis, author of Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life‘Eliane Glaser brilliantly blends analysis of the all too contemporary injustices of motherhood with a historical perspective, emerging with fresh and vivid insights articulated with verve and wit’ Rebecca Asher, author of Man Up: Boys, Men and Breaking the Male Rules‘Reading it is like talking to your super-smart and very sensible best friend who has the facts at her fingertips . . . I wish I’d had this book when I was in the thick of it’ Joanna Pocock, The Spectator‘Powerfully expressed throughout and a compelling, addictively easy read (while being meticulously researched and effortlessly intelligent), this is a breath of fresh air that blends personal observation with political analysis and proper investigative journalism. This will save you reading hundreds of books on motherhood and child-rearing. And is a damn sight more entertaining’ Viv Groskop, ObserverEliane Glaser is the author of Elitism: A Progressive Defence, Anti-Politics: On the Demonization of Ideology, Authority and the State and Get Real: How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life. In addition to writing books, Eliane is a BBC radio producer, a research fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and writes for publications including the Guardian, Prospect and the London Review of Books.• ESTABLISHED AUTHOR Eliane Glaser is the writer, broadcaster and producer of: Get Real: How to tell it like it is in a world of illusions. Glaser also writes for the Guardian, the London Review of books, the New Statesman, and Prospect, among other places. A well-respected speaker at conferences, festivals and in media about her research and ideas.• HARD HITTING SUBJECT saying the unsayable about motherhood. Brave, honest and outspoken, Motherhood will kick off a debate, appealing to fans of Sheila Heti’s Motherhood and Francesca Segal’s Mothership.• #METOO FOR MOTHERHOOD, feminism’s unfinished business. After recent articles amidst Covid-19 and lockdown measures (the Guardian, the BBC, the Independent, the Evening Standard and many others) looking at the unequal amount of childcare taken up by mothers, this book will debunk how equal the parenting is today and the demands on mothers that persists.Competition: Mothership;Motherhood;Hard Pushed;My wild and sleepless nights;The home stretch;Fair play;Invisible women;Inferiors. by Francesa Segal;by Sheila Heti;by Leah Hazard;by Clover Stroud;by Sally Howard;by Eve Rodsky;by Caroline Criado-Perez;by Angela Saini;by Laura Bates;by Deborah Frances-White
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