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Essential labor : mothering as social change

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    Running Time: 06:30 hrs
    Narrator: Angela Garbes
    Publisher:
    HarperCollins, 2022
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 06:30 hrs
    Narrator: Angela Garbes
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Garbes, Angela
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2022
    Summary:

    Angela Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context, the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color.

    Genre:
    Self-help publications
    Subject(s): Caregivers | Motherhood | Mothers | Social Change | United States
    Original Publisher: [New York], HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9798200970025, 9798200970032