Lean on Me The Politics of Radical Care
by Lynne Segal (Verso, ISBN: 9781804292945) versobooks.com
On a recent visit to a 96-year-old relative who still lived alone, it became clear that he had heard the phrase ‘living independently’ one too many times. ‘I don’t live independently – none of us do,’ he said, with an exasperation which seemed profoundly out of character.
It’s this notion of interdependence that is at the heart of . Drawing upon insights from her own story – as a child in Australia, her arrival in Britain in the early 1970s as a young single mother, and subsequent decades of feminist activism and scholarship – Lynne Segal takes the reader on a somewhat whistle-stop tour of the
