Doing It All Av Ruby Russell

<p><i>Mother More</i> explores what it means to be a single mother. Scorned as victims, outcasts and sinners, the very existence of lone mothers has long been a ''problem'' that skewers the heart of prevailing systems of morality, oppression and power. This book combines personal essay with interviews and historical research to reveal the shrouded history and present-day struggles of women who raise their children outside marriage, on the fringes of society, and in communities that challenge the very definition of family. It looks to traditions of female solidarity around the world, and to the few explicitly political movements of single mothers in Western history-most significantly the Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers that arose in the US in the early 1970s. <br>There has been a wave of wonderfully radical examinations of motherhood in recent years. But no one has deeply examined the specific questions and communal histories of single motherhood. Like queer relationships, single mot