Doing It All: The Social Power of Single Motherhood

Author/Contributor(s):	Russell, Ruby
Publisher:	Seal Press (CA)
Date:	05/07/2024
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. In the United States, one child in five is raised by a single mother./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 not defined by loss but whole and 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."--