Carolyn McConnell- Motherhood Discounted

Join Carolyn McConnell to explore motherhood, care work, American individualism, and the patriarchal systems that undervalue it.
About this Event

Why does America have such a problem offering social support for care work, when mothering is the essential work of reproducing society? Carolyn McConnell blames the myth of autonomy that American individualism breeds: the idea that independence is always good and dependence always bad. Written in a lively personal style, Motherhood Discounted describes how patriarchal systems have extracted and compelled care work throughout American history. In the wake of Dobbs, and now with the country in the grips of Trump and a resurgent far right, this book provides surprising answers to the question, How could this happen in America?

Carolyn McConnell is a lawyer and an activist dedicated to resisting attacks on public services. She has published extensively on reproductive rights, feminism, and women’s history and holds graduate degrees in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

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