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The cost of labour / Natalie Kon-yu.

The cost of labour / Natalie Kon-yu.
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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date Res.
TF1304460 613.04 KON
Women   . On Loan . 17 May 2024
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Record Number 21322
ISBN 9781922626868
Location 613.04 KON
Author Kon-yu, Natalie (author.).
Title The cost of labour / Natalie Kon-yu.
Published South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022.
©2022.
Collation 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Content types text
Carrier type volume
General Note "How women are trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting" -- Cover.
Collection code: W - Women
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note "Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the doctors saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. This loss of agency carried on through her childbirth and into her early years as a mother. Natalie discovered that she was far from alone. In fact, her experience typifies the inequalities that weigh heavily on child-bearing women, as well as the devaluation of what is still perceived as 'women's work'. With bracing clarity and verve, Kon-yu tackles the outdated institutions, expectations and ideologies that hold us hostage as parents. The pressure is building and the cost on families is stacking up. Something has to give. Drawing on personal narratives, history, social research and interviews, 'The cost of labour' tackles the expectations that keep us all hostage to a dynamic unfit for contemporary society and offers hope for a way out of the trap." - Back cover.
Subject Feminism
Medical care -- Australia
Women -- Health and hygiene
Pregnancy -- Social aspects
Pregnancy -- Political aspects
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