MENTAL LOAD: A FEMINIST COMIC (SEVEN STORIES PRESS)

In her first book of comic strips, French author Emma uses simple line drawings to dissect the mental load - all the invisible and unpaid organising, list-making and planning women carry out to manage the lives of their family members. Her themes include maternity leave (not a vacation - news to some), domestic violence, the clitoris, and the violence of the medical world on women during childbirth - and she addresses them in a straightforward way both hilarious and deadly serious.