Alva Gotby’s book encourages women to refuse the labour of care – and even suggests abolishing the nuclear family.
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Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
Women have to take on more unpaid labour – and manage their emotional response to this extra work.
We often talk about ‘emotional labour’ as performed by those who take on the emotional workload within families or relationships. But the term has a specific meaning – and that’s not what it is.
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