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The Mother of All Questions
by Rebecca Solnit
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
“We need to stop telling the story about the woman who stayed home, passive and dependent, waiting for her man. She wasn’t sitting around waiting. She was busy. She still is.”
Your ole bookreadin’ Meemaw is a full time caregiver. I used to think I had respect for stay-at-home parents, then my job became doing all the things two fully functional parents didn’t have time for and my respect skyrocketed. In the pandemic, most of the people who left the workforce were women and many of them cited caring for children unable to attend school as a reason. Our country has left parents, especially moms, in a horrible situation by keeping wages down and offering paltry assistance with childcare. On top of that, many choose to belittle the parents who stay home as dependents themselves, discounting all the unpaid labor that makes the working parent’s life possible. I picked this book up because I wanted to read a book about being Childfree written by a Childfree woman, but it was so much more than that. The choice to remain Childfree is wrapped up with the choice to be a parent and neither will be respected without the work Intersectional Feminism is doing. I love Rebecca Solnit’s work and it always gives me a lot to think about (and scrawl in the margins.) I’d love to see an updated version that includes the pandemic!
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Your ole bookreadin’ Meemaw is a full time caregiver. I used to think I had respect for stay-at-home parents, then my job became doing all the things two fully functional parents didn’t have time for and my respect skyrocketed. In the pandemic, most of the people who left the workforce were women and many of them cited caring for children unable to attend school as a reason. Our country has left parents, especially moms, in a horrible situation by keeping wages down and offering paltry assistance with childcare. On top of that, many choose to belittle the parents who stay home as dependents themselves, discounting all the unpaid labor that makes the working parent’s life possible. I picked this book up because I wanted to read a book about being Childfree written by a Childfree woman, but it was so much more than that. The choice to remain Childfree is wrapped up with the choice to be a parent and neither will be respected without the work Intersectional Feminism is doing. I love Rebecca Solnit’s work and it always gives me a lot to think about (and scrawl in the margins.) I’d love to see an updated version that includes the pandemic!
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