Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of
history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday
- is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of
interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once
termed 'women's work'. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an
ageing relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a
site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound
meaning. Here, productivity sits alongside self-erasure, resentment
with tenderness, and the animal self is never far away, perpetually
threatening to break through. Drawing on the work of figures such
as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf, Benjamin
writes with fierce candour of the struggle to overwrite the gender
conditioning that pulls her back into 'the mud-world of
pre-feminism' even as she attempts to haul herself out. From her
upbringing as the child of immigrants with fixed traditional
values, to looking after her mother and seeing her teenager move
out of home, she examines her relationships with family, community,
her body, and even with language itself. Ultimately, she shows that
a woman's true work may lie at the heart of her humanity, in the
pursuit both of transformation and of deep acceptance.
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