Babymania
Katha Pollitt, 21 March 1996
Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness
by Elaine Tyler May.
Basic Books, 318 pp., $24, June 1995,0 465 00609 4 Show More
by Elaine Tyler May.
Basic Books, 318 pp., $24, June 1995,
Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood
edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin.
Columbia, 398 pp., £12.95, June 1995,9780231096812 Show More
edited by Martha Albertson Fineman and Isabel Karpin.
Columbia, 398 pp., £12.95, June 1995,
What about Us? An Open Letter to the Mothers Feminism Forgot
by Maureen Freely.
Bloomsbury, 224 pp., £15.99, October 1995,0 7475 2304 5 Show More
by Maureen Freely.
Bloomsbury, 224 pp., £15.99, October 1995,
Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies and Bargaining Power
by Rhona Mahony.
Basic Books, 277 pp., $23, June 1995,0 465 08594 6 Show More
by Rhona Mahony.
Basic Books, 277 pp., $23, June 1995,
“... Having a baby is such an impediment to American women I used to wonder why they didn’t go on strike: ‘No equality, no kids!’ It may be that something like that is happening in those countries where family structure and masculine attitudes are in radical conflict with women’s desire for emancipation. Catholic Italy and Spain, of all places, have the lowest fertility rates in the world today; and in Japan, where women typically lose their jobs on marrying and motherhood is a full-time and often rather lonely business, young women are increasingly reluctant to get married at all ... ”
