Angela Garbes
Auteur van Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Over de Auteur
Angela Garbe's writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine's "The Cut," and featured on NPR's Fresh Air. She was a staff writer at the Seattle newsweekly The Stranger. Garbes grew up in a food-obsessed immigrant Filipino household and now lives in Seattle with her husband and toon meer daughters. toon minder
Werken van Angela Garbes
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy (2018) 153 exemplaren
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It's clear Garbes did a lot of background reading in order to write this book. There are lots of quotes from other writers and interesting history tidbits. I really enjoyed this aspect of the book. For example, in the early 1980s Angela Davis "argued that housework should no longer be private. She envisioned the industrialization of housework: 'teams of trained and well-paid workers, moving from dwelling to dwelling...'" Fascinating! Also in 1975 women in Iceland staged a strike and "brought Iceland's economy to its knees."
In later chapters, the book lost some oomph for me. Still, I look forward to reading more of Garbes' work in the future. I like where she's going.… (meer)