Katherine Gieve (–2024)
Autore di Balancing Acts: On Being a Mother
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Opere di Katherine Gieve
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Gieve, Katherine
- Data di morte
- 2024
- Sesso
- female
- Attività lavorative
- Solicitor
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 9
- Popolarità
- #968,587
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
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A set of essays by women about their experiences of motherhood, seen through a filter of feminism. Rather dated (published in 1989), there is a lot of rather po-faced reflecting and some important points about the eurocentricity of feminism at that time, discussions which have moved away now (I'm not going to get into a discussion of whether feminism exists or not nowadays!). Anyway, the women's experiences go through a range of backgrounds: multi-child, two-parent families, adoptive mothers, a woman whose woman partner has a baby, a woman whose baby died ... all have a story to tell and it's interesting to see them exploring their lives, feminism and relationships with both people and theories.… (altro)