Liberating Motherhood

If it is true that there have been waves of feminism, then mothers' rights are the flotsam left behind on the ocean surface of patriarchy. For all the talk of women's liberation, when it is predicated on liberation from motherhood, it is no liberation at all. Under twenty-first century capitalism, the bonds of motherhood are being replaced with binds to the market within wage slavery and ruthless individualism. Mothers are in bondage - and not in a 50 Shades way. Olorenshaw is clear: When mothering is on our terms, it can be liberating. The time has come for a radical, bold and creative approach to the question of mothers, children and care. Liberating Motherhood discusses our bodies, our minds, our labour and our hearts, exploring issues from birth and breastfeeding to mental health, economics, politics, basic incomes and love and in doing so, broaches a conversation we've been avoiding for years: how do we value motherhood? Vanessa Olorenshaw is a mother of two, blogger, activist, breastfeeding counsellor, and former barrister, law reporter and trade union rep from the South East of England. Always intellectually curious and raised - unwittingly, she suspects - to be a feminist within her leftie working class family. In March 2015, she published The Politics of Mothering, a pamphlet for the UK General Election. She was a founding member-cum-agitator of the Women's Equality Party UK and contributed to policy development on parenting. #MothersOfTheWorldUnite #LiberatingMotherhood #Purplestockings