"A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. In the United States, one child in five is raised by a single mother./Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good./In Doing It All, journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story, of single mothering not defined by loss but whole and powerful in its own right./She finds narratives of liberation in Victorian ...
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"A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. In the United States, one child in five is raised by a single mother./Yet the single mom is still cast as victim or welfare queen, sexually irresponsible or too independent for her own (or her children's) good./In Doing It All, journalist and single mother Ruby Russell tells a different story, of single mothering not defined by loss but whole and powerful in its own right./She finds narratives of liberation in Victorian brothels and postwar British slums, in Black feminist theory and the grassroots activism of women fighting for welfare rights."--
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