Details

Edition

First US edition.

Description

326 pages ; 22 cm.

Note

Originally published in 2024 by Dialogue Books in Great Britain.

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.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324).

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.

Subject

Russell, Ruby.

Single mothers -- Anecdotes.

Single mothers -- Social aspects.

Motherhood -- Anecdotes.

Single-parent families -- Anecdotes.

Genre/Form

Anecdotes.

Added Title

Social power of single motherhood

ISBN

9781541602199 (hardcover)

1541602196 (hardcover)

9781541602205 (ebook)