Elinor Cleghorn is a feminist cultural historian, writer and researcher living in Sussex, UK. After receiving her PhD in humanities and cultural studies in 2012, she worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford on an interdisciplinary arts and medical humanities project. Her writing on women's health and its histories has been published in Wall Street Journal, BBC History Magazine, BBC Science Focus, New Scientist, and Vogue, and she has discussed her research on BBC Woman's Hour, NPR, and numerous podcasts. Elinor is the author of Unwell Women, which was published in 2021 in the UK and US, and has been translated across the world.
An essential history of forgotten lives and labour * Leah Hazard, author of WOMB * A perfectly timed and illuminating triumph that consolidates Cleghorn's place among the foremost voices in medical history * Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of THE FACEMAKER * [Written] with robust research and eloquent rage...a timely lesson on the dangers of allowing outdated patriarchal attitudes to shape modern public policy. * Elaine Weiss, author of SPELL FREEDOM and THE WOMAN'S HOUR * This is the book we need right now, freeing motherhood from history's margins and making it the story. From the Bronze Age to the present day, Cleghorn writes about the fight for mothers ""to be cared for, respected, supported and heard"" and her book does all of this and so much more. Huge in its scope and precise in its research, A Woman's Work is as powerful and astonishing as motherhood itself. * Marianne Levy, author of DON'T FORGET TO SCREAM *