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12. How to Value and Shift your Emotional Labour
12. How to Value and Shift your Emotional Labour
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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Dec 2, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
You acquire certain skills when you mother children, and ‘maternal thinking’ is one of them. I describe this concept to you as a way of re-valuing the work of motherhood, and relate it to the weight of responsibility mothers carry in caring for children and running a household. This weight can be talked about in terms of ‘emotional labour’ and the ‘mental load’, and also relates to ingrained and ongoing sexism. I draw on research to explain the critical yet invisible burden of these responsibilities that is largely carried by mothers. In doing so I delve into a discussion of ‘maternal gatekeeping’, why it may keep you feeling stuck and alone, and how it relates to the pressures of ‘perfect motherhood’. I finish by speaking about the gendered division of care and domestic labour and the fraught nature of ‘choice’.
Released:
Dec 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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12. How to Value and Shift your Emotional Labour: You acquire certain skills when you mother childr… by The Good Enough Mother