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The New Yorker Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? In Essential Labor, Angela Garbes argues that care work should be public and universal

The New York Review of Books Angela Garbes considers the emotional and political fallout of pregnancy and motherhood

***Fresh Air* *with Terry Gross*** Rethinking The 'Essential Labor' Of Raising Children

City Arts & Lectures A Conversation about Essential Labor with Shereen Marisol Meraji

Cup of Jo My Beauty Uniform

TELEVISION

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

ABC News Live with Linsey Davis: Mothering Is Also a Verb

MSNBC’s American Voices with Alicia Menendez: Why Abortion Access Is Part of Respecting Moms

REVIEWS

Slate: Angela Garbes' Essential Labor takes parenting advice to the next level

Public Books: Can Motherhood Bend Towards Justice?

Washington Post: How Mothers Can Be Changemakers, at Home and in the Community

Los Angeles Review of Books: Activist Mothering

PRINT & ONLINE

Essential Labor excerpt in The Atlantic: The Devaluation of Care Work Is by Design

Essential Labor excerpt on Literary Hub: On Taking Pleasure in the Sensual Side of Mothering

Culture Study interview with Anne Helen Petersen: ”Raising children is not an individual responsibility. It is a social one.”

Vogue: Angela Garbes’s New Book Asks: Why Don’t We Value Mothering as Care Work?

The Nation: Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want

The Examined Family interview with Courtney Martin: “The Matrilineal feast of my dreams”

Electric Literature: Mothering as a Radical Path Towards Social Change

Self: Essential Labor Author Angela Garbes on the Undervaluing of Caregivers

PODCAST & AUDIO INTERVIEWS

Washington Post Reports: The Essential Labor of Care Work

NPR Life Kit with Asma Khalid: How to give mothering the value it deserves

Slate’s The Waves with Brigid Schulte: The Caregiver Crisis

Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen: On Appetites

Everything is Fine: A Podcast for Women Over Forty: Essential Labor & Midlife with Angela Garbes

Burnt Toast with Virginia Sole-Smith: Essential Labor and Essential Pleasure

Soundside on KUOW: Motherhood and Domestic Labor: How the pandemic showed women are 'still in a condition of servitude'

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy: A Conversation with Angela Garbes

No One Is Coming to Save Us: Mothers Are Essential Workers Too

Hello Monday on LinkedIn News: Angela Garbes on essential labor: “Care is the real work of humans,”

Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen: Understanding Essential Labor

LIKE A MOTHER

“You don't have to be a mother or even a woman to be fascinated by the science and physiology that she writes about.”

—Terry Gross, *Fresh Air*

Seattle Times.jpg — “What got me was Garbes' regard for mothers in their own right, rather than the hosts or self-sacrificing caregivers they're conditioned to be.”

—*The Seattle Times*

“Personal yet wildly informative, Garbes’s book is about all the things you didn’t know about pregnancy. Along the way, I realized just how little we know about the process of carrying a child until it happens to us, if it does.”

—Washington Post's *The Lily*

“An empowering resource...Throughout this thoughtful book, she speaks to her readers as peers, providing affirmation that their experiences are important and that they are not alone.”

“The big myth this book takes on is that what’s out there is all there is. You feel like, in your choices regarding motherhood, there’s a right way and wrong way to do it. All of us are really just doing the best we can.” —Explicit Connections: PW Talks with Angela Garbes

Thrive sat down with Angela Garbes, the author of the book, "Like a Mother - A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy," to talk about the connection between breastfeeding and feminism, and the importance of maternal well-being.

“Our culture makes it seem like a biological trap, when in fact it’s a superhuman power. To be able to grow someone, birth, and then feed them with just your body? Why don’t we give that worth and value?”

—Angela Garbes is *Like a Mother, Seattle Met*

“Her book goes. . .into the science and culture of what women experience during pregnancy and as new moms, without any of the usual prescriptive overtones. If you’ve ever wondered how and why a woman’s body and mind shifts—the good, the bad, the ugly—before, during and after childbirth, it’s a fascinating read.”

—*Seattle Magazine*

“I wrote it in a way I hoped would be interesting to all women, anyone interested in female reproductive health or in the body and science. That’s what I wanted to do with the book, too—because we’ve never valued female reproductive health, or female health at all, from a cultural, financial and scientific standpoint.”

—Like a Mother: Angela Garbes on Her New Book, *City Arts Magazine*