pstrongemSometimes 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.emstrongp pIn 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 aging relative, emA Little Giveem 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.p pDrawing on the work of figures such as Natalia Ginzburg, Paula Rego, and Virginia Woolf, Benjamin writes with fierce candor 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 looki