The Juggling Mother: CBC's Michelle Eliot in conversation with author Amanda Watson

Monday, March 8, 5:00pm - 7:00pm (EST)

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On International Women's Day, join us for a conversation about COVID, motherhood, and paid and unpaid work.

Amanda D. Watson is the author of The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety (2020, UBC Press). The book explores how the popular representation of the contemporary mother — frantically juggling paid labour and unpaid care work — perpetuates established inequities of race, gender, class and ability. Mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones, but also in their own undoing.

At this event, Watson will read selected passages from The Juggling Mother, followed by a conversation with Michelle Eliot, award-winning journalist and host of “BC Today” on CBC Radio One. Watson and Eliot will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified the challenges of this idealized version of motherhood.

Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-juggling-mother-coming-undone-in-the-age-of-covid-registration-140440606635?_eboga=1287944156.1614293403&_ga=2.93985757.1931176817.1614293403-1287944156.1614293403

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Amanda D. Watson is the author of The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety (2020, UBC Press). The book explores how the popular representation of the contemporary mother — frantically juggling paid labour and unpaid care work — perpetuates established inequities of race, gender, class and ability. Mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones, but also in their own undoing.

At this event, Watson will read selected passages from The Juggling Mother, followed by a conversation with Michelle Eliot, award-winning journalist and host of “BC Today” on CBC Radio One. Watson and Eliot will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified the challenges of this idealized version of motherhood.

Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-juggling-mother-coming-undone-in-the-age-of-covid-registration-140440606635?_eboga=1287944156.1614293403&_ga=2.93985757.1931176817.1614293403-1287944156.1614293403 Online false MM/DD/YYYY 30 OPAQUE akQgadHPwzbMmYsxGmmh112024

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