The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women - Brossura

Badinter, Elisabeth

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ISBN 10: 1250032091 ISBN 13: 9781250032096

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2013

Riassunto

The activist and author of The Myth of Motherhood identifies vulnerabilities in today's parenting models for women, arguing that current recommendations in such areas as breastfeeding and attachment parenting are imposing 1950s-era limitations at the expense of women's health, fatherhood and child independence. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Impressively researched, elegantly argued and forcefully written... Badinter's warnings about the dangers of excessive child-centeredness are in many ways well founded.--The New York Times Book Review. The Conflict was first published in France, but its message is most pressing in the Anglophone world, where a vast industry peddling organic baby foods and anxiety is sucking the joy out of motherhood. Ms. Badinter's polemic is sardonic, urgent and gripping.... This is a cry for freedom.--The Wall Street Journal. Badinter's arguments are provocative and rigorous...Badinter's impressive imperative to own one's own life, to take rigorous and energetic responsibility, to cast off the silly or cowardly or frivolously domestic ways, seems very appealing, and refreshing and brisk.--Slate. Badinter highlights some alarming trends that are rarely questioned, thanks to current attitudes about the supremacy of the maternal role... She delivers sharp insights about the regressive turn of modern attitudes about motherhood.Bookforum --Various

L'autore:

Elisabeth Badinter is the acclaimed author of three seminal works on feminism—The Myth of Motherhood, Wrong Turn, and Masculine Identity—which have been translated into fifteen languages. Badinter teaches philosophy at the école Polytechnique in Paris, where she lives.

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1250032091
• ISBN 13: 9781250032096
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208