Angela Garbes

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Angela Garbes
GenreNonfiction
SubjectMotherhood
SpouseWill [1]
Children2
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Angela Garbes is an American author. She has written two nonfiction books about motherhood: Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy (2018) and Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change (2022). [2] [3] [4] Garbes is the daughter of Filipino immigrants. [5] She began her career as a food writer for The Stranger , an alternative newspaper in Seattle. [6]

In The Cut , Sara Petersen wrote that Essential Labor "examines the collective power of mothering and interrogates how individuals can both fight for systemic changes (like affordable quality child care, paid family leave, and comprehensive maternal health care) and reclaim acts of mothering in our own lives." [7] In the Los Angeles Review of Books , Sarah Stoller wrote that in Essential Labor, "Garbes draws on decades of insights from Black, Indigenous, and queer feminists, imploring us to reimagine ourselves not as atomized households but as members of communities that share the work of care." [8]

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References

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  2. Tolentino, Jia (8 May 2022). "Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  3. "Raising kids is hard work. The way we think about it can shift how we value mothering". National Public Radio. May 16, 2022. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  4. Gross, Terry (June 21, 2022). "Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely, exhausting and expensive". National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 4 August 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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