Episode 393: The Horrors Persist But I Have My Little Crafts with Elinor Cleghorn

Feminist cultural historian, researcher, and the author of A Woman’s Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering, Elinor Cleghorn, joins the show to discuss how to understand women’s lives when history is written by men, the records of historical women fighting for the right to have choices, and what her vision of a radical future on mothering looks like.  

Photo credit: Lara Downie

Mentioned in this Episode

• Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn

• Women’s Work by Elinor Cleghorn

• Heraklion Museum of Archaeology in Crete

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  • https://www.instagram.com/elinorcleghorn/

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