The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

✍ Scribed by Badinter, Elisabeth

• Book ID: 108585797
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 348 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780805094145

✦ Synopsis

In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhood

Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is "natural." Attachment parenting, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially breast-feeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. Badinter argues that the taboos now surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs—and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her offspring—have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force.

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