女人的工作：重拾母职的激进历史A Womans Work:Reclaiming the Radical History of MotheringElinor Cleghorn

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dutton

Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 17, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593472705

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593472705

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.03 x 9 inches

基本信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

继《病弱的女人》之后，作者又带来了一部震撼人心、开创性的全新叙事史，讲述了母性与育儿的故事。

母亲创造历史。然而，几个世纪以来，母亲在育儿过程中所承担的体力劳动和情感付出，在历史叙事中却被忽视了。父权制对母性的控制，将孕育、生育、养育和爱等行为边缘化，并认为这些是无关紧要的女性工作。如今，埃莉诺·克莱霍恩通过女性自身的视角，重拾并重述了母性的历史，展现了那些塑造历史进程的母亲、其他母亲、助产士、活动家、社区领袖等等。

本书从古代世界开始，我们看到了一尊三千多年前用于分娩仪式的雕像。我们结识了安妮·布拉德斯特里特和伊丽莎白·乔斯林等杰出的作家和诗人，她们用文字表达了自己对母性的深刻感受。十七世纪的伦敦街头，我们目睹了未婚母亲们与社会污名和羞耻抗争，以及那些竭力帮助她们的女性。后来，像玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特这样的先驱者为母性摆脱男性控制奠定了理论基础，而像索杰纳·特鲁斯这样勇敢的活动家则将奴隶母亲遭受的骇人听闻的待遇公之于众。这些以及其他许多勇敢的人物，为所有阶层、所有境遇的母亲争取应有的价值、尊重和支持——她们不应被视为生育工具，而应被视为人。

From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.

Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the stories of the past. Patriarchal control of motherhood has relegated the acts of growing, birthing, nurturing, and loving to the sidelines, and deemed it unimportant, women's work. Now, through the voices of women themselves, Elinor Cleghorn reclaims and retells the history of motherhood, showcasing the mothers, othermothers, midwives, activists, community leaders, and more who have shaped the course of history.

Beginning in the ancient world, we encounter a figurine made for a childbirth ritual over three thousand years ago. We meet extraordinary writers and poets, like Anne Bradstreet and Elizabeth Jocelin, who were expressing their innermost feelings about motherhood. During the seventeenth century, in the streets of London, we encounter unmarried mothers struggling against stigma and shame, and the women who strove to help them. Later, pioneers like Mary Wollstonecraft laid the intellectual foundation for the liberation of motherhood from male control, and the abhorrent treatment of enslaved mothers was brought to public attention by courageous activists like Sojourner Truth. These and many other brave characters lobbied for mothers of all classes and circumstances to be valued, respected, and supported--not as reproductive vessels, but as people.

作者简介

埃莉诺·克莱格霍恩是一位居住在苏塞克斯的女性主义文化史学家、作家和研究员。2012年获得人文与文化研究博士学位后，她在牛津大学拉斯金艺术学院担任了三年博士后研究员，从事一项跨学科的艺术与医学人文研究项目。她关于女性健康及其历史的文章发表于《华尔街日报》、《BBC历史频道》、《BBC科学聚焦》、《新科学家》和《Vogue》等刊物，并曾在BBC的《女性时间》节目、美国国家公共广播电台（NPR）以及众多播客节目中探讨过她的研究成果。埃莉诺著有《不适的女性》（Unwell Women）一书，该书已被翻译成多种语言，在全球发行。

Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian, writer, and researcher living in Sussex. After receiving her PhD in humanities and cultural studies in 2012, she worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford on an interdisciplinary arts and medical humanities project. Her writing on women's health and its histories has been published in The Wall Street Journal, BBC History, BBC Science Focus, New Scientist, and Vogue, and she has discussed her research on BBC's Woman's Hour, NPR, and numerous podcasts. Elinor is the author of Unwell Women, which has been translated across the world.