Welcome to Women’s Work

Women’s Work is a collection of ideas surrounding both the female experience and the vocation of womanhood, as well as thoughts on current cultural happenings and how they affect women, girls and the family. I am ever-devoted to the endeavor of attempting to make sense of the inconsistencies between our inherent human nature and the modern pressures of technological society. This is especially in reference to motherhood, which I have personally found to be absolutely incompatible with the expectations of the market and state.

Women’s Work is written by me, Emily. I am a mother to three-going-on-four beautiful children before I am any other “thing”. I am a wife and live on a handful of beautiful acres in an old farmhouse in the rural Missouri Ozarks. I am currently a postpartum nurse (work that is very traditionally “women’s work” in itself, which I recognize and seek to honor while also lamenting the current state of nursing due to the systematic and procedural nature of the healthcare industry), lactation consultant and a writer. My background in women’s health and various experiences with my own births (from hospital birth to free birth) and mothering informs the questions I seek to explore in my writing. Through my writing on this vast topic and how it touches women, children, and families, I hope to spark critical thought and reverence for life, vitality and all that is good.