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Marina Benjamin
Marina Benjamin’s most recent books are Insomnia, The Middlepause,…
DiscoverMarina Benjamin at Oxford Literary Festival
Writer and editor Marina Benjamin talks about her new collection of essays on the tasks once termed ‘women’s work’ and argues that a woman’s true work may lie at the heart of her humanity.
Benjamin draws on the work of figures such as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf as she struggles to overcome gender conditioning that she says pulls her back into ‘the mud-world of pre-feminism’. She looks at her relationships with her family, upbringing as the child of immigrants, looking after her mother, seeing her teenager move out of home, and at her relationships with community, her body and language itself.
Benjamin is author of The Middlepause, Rocket Dreams, and Last Days in Babylon. She is a senior editor at the digital magazine Aeon and is a former arts editor of the New Statesman.
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A Little Give
Featured in Stylist’s ‘Can’t Miss’ Books of 2023
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…
