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7 Books About Mothers with Voracious Interior Lives
The political project constraining American women, the one that gave us Dobbs, rests on a picture of motherhood as a woman’s entirety. Instinctive, total, self-abnegating, and therefore requiring no compensation, no consent, and no interior life. A reader of feminist theory may hear Silvia Federici’s “Wages Against Housework”: Housework “transformed into a natural attribute of […] The post 7 Books About Mothers with Voracious Interior Lives appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN
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When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.
"From childbirth to miscarriages, women’s health care in the state has become increasingly dangerous."
Longreads · EN
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One of the Biggest Books of the Year Has Proved Polarizing for an Unexpected Reason. I Have to Defend It.
There are diapers and breastfeeding galore in the latest ACOTAR book.
Slate · EN
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7 Books That Weigh the Choice of Motherhood
When I began trying to get pregnant, I didn’t know exactly why I wanted to have a child, but I knew my parents had something to do with the desire. Not directly: They never told me I should have children and would never have pressured me into making a decision either way. I felt their […] The post 7 Books That Weigh the Choice of Motherhood appeared first on Electric Literature .
Electric Literature · EN