
Aftermath – contesting gender equality
[print_link] [email_link] I approached Rachel Cusk’s Aftermath (2012) like someone visiting a fortune-teller at a fairground. In the book, she was to describe the break-up of her ten-year marriage and her struggle to restart life after the divorce. I wondered if I would see my own future written in her story. Cusk’s husband was the kind who’d given up his job to help look after the children and be a home-maker, letting her get on with her writing and work […]
Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: gender, literature, parenting, women