Overview
More than 45 single mothers from around the world share their struggles and triumphs via essays, poems, art and critique. As Glenys Livingstone Ph.D. wrote in her review, ""These are voices that need to be heard ... yet so many block their ears: the pain of memory and/or recognition may be too much. These stories speak a deep essential truth about the global cultural context for those engaged in maternal care, and where lies the illnesses of our times...This anthology furthers and encourages the speaking of women's truths, which often does indeed split the world open.""
Full Product Details
Author: Trista Hendren ,
Pat Daly
Publisher: Trista Hendren
Imprint: Trista Hendren
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.404kg
ISBN: 9788293725169
ISBN 10: 8293725168
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 20 February 2021
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
If we are ever to value women, we must value mothers. Our voices can be easily ignored or dismissed. Single Mothers Speak on Patriarchy raises the voices of women who are so easily dismissed. This collection of words and art from single mothers is at once enraging, inspiring, uncomfortable, moving and authentic. Solidarity, sisters, and congratulations on speaking your truth. The rest of us? Listen up. #MothersOfTheWorldUnite . Vanessa Olorenshaw, author of Liberating Motherhood: Birthing the Purplestockings Movement These are voices that need to be heard ... yet so many block their ears: the pain of memory and/or recognition may be too much. These stories speak a deep essential truth about the global cultural context for those engaged in maternal care, and where lies the illnesses of our times - that are seen played out everyday...This anthology furthers and encourages the speaking of women's truths, which often does indeed split the world open: but it apparently needs to be so. May more have the courage required, and may they be safer as they do so. May those who hear have more compassionate response for the mothers and the children, and may laws be enacted as if She - in us all - mattered. Glenys Livingstone Ph.D., author of PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion
Author Information
Trista Hendren founded Girl God Books in 2011 to support a necessary unraveling of the patriarchal world view of divinity. Her first book-The Girl God, a children's picture book-was a response to her own daughter's inability to see herself reflected in God. Since then, she has published more than 25 books by a dozen women from across the globe with help from her family. Originally from Portland, Oregon - she now lives in Bergen, Norway with her family. You can find a complete list of her publications and other offerings at www.thegirlgod.com. Pat Daly is a mother of three daughters and proud grandma. A published author/writer on career and job search issues, Pat lives in Portland, Oregon. She has edited all of The Girl God books from the beginning.
