Four Mothers
£10.99
After giving birth to three children in Japan, journalist Abigail Leonard was shocked to return home to the US and understand American motherhood from a new perspective. Fascinated to learn more about the ways that culture around the world impacts the experience of birth and parenting, especially for women, she starts reporting. Identifying four new mothers – from the US, Japan, Finland and Kenya – she follows them closely through birth and the first year of their children’s lives. Their intimate stories shed a light on national history, policy and gender relations; what is universal and what we can learn from other cultures. Abigail Leonard captures the love and complexity of their experiences in careful detail and compelling prose. Her rich storytelling draws an insightful and international portrait of modern mothering.
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‘Public interest journalism at its best – powerful human stories peppered with well-chosen facts … A compelling case for a fairer society’
SUNDAY TIMES
‘An absorbing, moving, and beautifully composed exploration of motherhood and mothering across the world . . . a gripping, vital, and utterly compelling book’
Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women
AS THE YEAR TURNS, FOUR WOMEN GIVE BIRTH.
In Japan, Tsukasa spends a week in her government-funded hospital room, before resting at her mother’s house. In Kenya, Chelsea returns to her urban flat the day after giving birth, greeted by friends. In Finland, Anna delivers her baby in a midwife-led birth centre. And in America, despite her insurance, Sarah pays $3,000 for an uncomplicated birth.
Following these women across their first year of parenting, Four Mothers is an immersive and deeply reported story of motherhood, and an enlightening exploration of the cultures and policies that shape it.
‘Eye-opening and cathartic. It is a love letter to parents and a clarion call for better policy’
Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
‘Exquisitely reported and intensely readable … Once I started Four Mothers I could not put it down’
Darcy Lockman, author of All the Rage
| Weight | 0.213 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.6 × 12.6 × 2.6 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 288 |
| Language | English |
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| Dewey | 306.8743 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
