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The Orion Publishing Group are offering free copies of A Woman’s Work by Elinor Cleghorn for book clubs to review.
A Woman’s Work is the first comprehensive history of mothers and mothering from antiquity to today, by the acclaimed author of UNWELL WOMEN.
More about the book: Mothers make history. For centuries, motherhood has sparked social and political change. Yet the acts of growing, birthing and nurturing children – and the power they hold – have been pushed to the margins, overlooked in our narratives of the past.
In A Woman’s Work, Elinor Cleghorn reveals the mothers, othermothers, midwives, activists, and community leaders who have shaped this extraordinary history. They include Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval nun and mystic with pioneering views about the maternal body; Mary Wollstonecraft, who laid the intellectual groundwork to release motherhood from male control; and Sojourner Truth, who drew attention to the abhorrent treatment of mothers under chattel slavery.
