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Being a single mother and a feminist in a society where feminist issues are framed from a middle-class perspective means facing a double vulnerability. *I fallinjen* is a challenge to a feminist discourse that prioritises issues such as quotas for board positions in companies and shared parental leave – even for people who have nothing to share.

I fallinjen is also a text about what an association for single parents can achieve when, under difficult circumstances, they come together and help one another. It is a philosophical essay on precarious feminism and on the practical life circumstances and development of the author and her close friends. To be in free fall is to not know how things will turn out. But one can also learn to find peace in the fall. In critical dialogue with, amongst others, Hegel’s ontology, Charles Taylor’s identity politics and Nina Björk’s feminism, Ann-Marie Ljungberg asks whether one can return to oneself. She offers several different answers.