Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
in a society with a focus on competition, capital and accumulation, optimizing children fits right into neoliberal economics. There is an unnecessary, insidious cruelty to the societal construction of motherhood. An “invisible violence,” as Adrienne Rich puts it.
Lucy Jones • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
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