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A feminist finds fulfilment in derided ‘women’s work’

Like many women in mid-life, Marina Benjamin found herself caring for the very young and the elderly – leading her to ‘a radical feminist turn’

22 July 2023

9:00 AM

22 July 2023

9:00 AM

A Little Give: The Unsung, Unseen, Undone Work of Women Marina Benjamin

Scribe UK, pp.240, 14.99

Marina Benjamin writes with a frankness, depth and wisdom that recalls the self-exploratory but world-revealing essays of Michel de Montaigne. In A Little Give, she turns her exacting philosopher’s mind, and opens her capacious heart to, her own life. Her essays, Tardis-like in their complexity, depth and range, scrutinise what has made and unmade her feminism, and then enabled her to make anew the feminism that has given her life both its personal and political trajectory:

While I’ve never stopped identifying as a feminist, I am less and less certain what it means to live as one.

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