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She wrote of going to an alumnae counselor who told her, “Go back to your kitchen and stay there and make jam!”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
What changed for preteen and younger teen girls in the early 2010s? The rapid increases in rates of self-harm and suicide, in conjunction with the self-report studies showing increases in anxiety and depression, offer a strong rebuttal to those who were skeptical about the existence of a mental health crisis.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Mothers’ work outside the home, whatever form that takes, is directly tied to their participation in public life.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
years, what mothers do is seen as so unremarkable it’s not just an unimportant story, but not even a story at all.
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
She is encouraged to pursue an ideal of self-invention and self-mastery that hails from a culture where someone else’s labors (that of wives and enslaved persons) would provide for the necessities of daily life.