Carol Fox was a lawyer until 2015. She was an award winning solicitor best known for fighting mass equal pay cases for low paid women throughout Scotland.
As a young woman Carol experienced serious fertility problems. Her greatest battles became very personal. In the late 1980s she made the positive decision to become a single parent and have a child on her own while she still could. Refused help in Scotland Carol moved to London where her only daughter was born in 1992.
Memoirs of a Feminist Mother (2015) recounts this determined journey, celebrates motherhood and recognises the debt we all owe to our foremothers who struggle to give us greater life choices. Memoirs is republished in a 2nd edition with a Preface aimed at younger women to think hard and make their own choices to be or not be a mother.
Yarns of a Feminist Grandmother (2026) is an inspiring sequel sharing Carol’s decision to step back from her professional life to look after her own mother. Yarns also highlights the changing face of the modern family and celebrates families in all their diversity. Again this honest account of overcoming adversity is told with determination and humour. These Yarns are about survival and hope.
Carol is now overjoyed to be a grandmother having been told so many years ago she would never be a mother. She shouts loudly that the personal remains political. Feminist history matters, she believes, as does recording the experiences of courageous women who take on the patriarchy.