I will go back and finish up the Father's Day postings, but it's probably getting a bit wearying for you (I know it is for me). So I'd like to jump to a few other things that I find more interesting and more pressing, starting with this New Republic (?!) piece on motherhood (reg required). (I don't mean any insult to TNR by the (?!). I love TNR, but I don't really think of it as a parenting magazine. Though I'd would subscribe to a TNRParents publication. It bet it'd be fun.)
I keep thinking that we've reached the end of the analysis when it comes to books about modern motherhood. Once you've read Warner, Douglas and Michaels, Belkin, etc. etc. -- can there really be much else to say? The piece by Ruth Franklin in TNR backs me up. It's a long article, and well-done, and could probably serve as the last word on the topic. She hits most of the important points in the discussion of motherhood: consumerism, the razor-thin difference between "working women" and at-home moms, the danger of assuming that modern motherhood is somehow represented rich, well-educated women and so forth.
She also gives a nice shout-out to bloggers, but that's just gravy.
Of course, we haven't reached the end of the line, not yet. I think that Caitlin Flanagan is working on some kind of motherhood book that is bound to terribly interesting and (perhaps) agonizingly wrongheaded. (Thanks to Jessica at feministing.com for flagging.)
My main computer is back up, and I'll begin getting my audio capabilities back today -- maybe there will be a podcast next week! (I lost all my data, so I'll have to create my intro, outro and so on. It's a real pain.)
I keep thinking that we've reached the end of the analysis when it comes to books about modern motherhood. Once you've read Warner, Douglas and Michaels, Belkin, etc. etc. -- can there really be much else to say? The piece by Ruth Franklin in TNR backs me up. It's a long article, and well-done, and could probably serve as the last word on the topic. She hits most of the important points in the discussion of motherhood: consumerism, the razor-thin difference between "working women" and at-home moms, the danger of assuming that modern motherhood is somehow represented rich, well-educated women and so forth.
She also gives a nice shout-out to bloggers, but that's just gravy.
Of course, we haven't reached the end of the line, not yet. I think that Caitlin Flanagan is working on some kind of motherhood book that is bound to terribly interesting and (perhaps) agonizingly wrongheaded. (Thanks to Jessica at feministing.com for flagging.)
My main computer is back up, and I'll begin getting my audio capabilities back today -- maybe there will be a podcast next week! (I lost all my data, so I'll have to create my intro, outro and so on. It's a real pain.)
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