Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care : Lynne Segal

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/695402 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care Author: Lynne Segal Narrator: Brigid Lohrey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 56 minutes Release date: November 14, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Longtime feminist activist and writer Lynne Segal searches for hope in her own life and in the world around her, and finds it in our intimate commitments to each other and our shared collective engagements, the two being intertwined. Issues of care, intimacy, education, alongside meaningful work, and social engagement, lie at the core of our ability to understand the world and its possibilities for human flourishing. Not only does our dependence on others not disappear into self-sufficient autonomy once we leave childhood behind—only to re-emerge in very old age—but ignoring human interdependence and our lifelong need for care has been part of a massive and destructive public denial that must be resisted. Segal looks at our shared lifelong dependence on care and the well-being of others. In recounting from her own life the moments of motherhood, and of being on the front line of second wave feminism, Segal draws upon lessons from more than half a century of engagement in Left feminist politics, with its underlying commitment to building a more egalitarian and nurturing world. The personal and the political combine in this rallying cry to radically transform how we approach education, motherhood, and our everyday vulnerabilities of disability, aging, and enhanced needs.