Everyday Acts And Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community And Home

women reinventing family, community, and home

Plot

This book explores the ways wmen have found to create and celebrate important relationships, bring up children, mark the cycles of the year, and cope with illness and death as well as day to day living. the women whose stories are told here are old, young and in between, heterosexual and lesbian, single and partnered, with children and without, and come from a broad range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is that they have succeeded at least in part in the muddle of making a life - and dared to rethink some piece of what was expected of them. Rather than squeeze themselves into an uncomfortably ill-fitting set of parametres, they have redesigned the space.