PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksFrom the outset, she exposes the entangled forces of circumstance and decision that have led some women not to have children. In doing so, she offers a way of moving beyond motherhood as an overdetermined function of personal choice, and of an identity politics so profound and pervasive that it positions mothers and childless women at opposite ends of a spectrum.
Angela Garbes
PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksGarbes draws on decades of insights from Black, Indigenous, and queer feminists ... Garbes, in particular, venerates the messiness of bodies—feeding, grasping, undulating—in a manner that would have made the maternalist feminists of the late 19th century shudder.
