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 AlbertsonFineman and Isabel Karpin.
Columbia, 398 pp., £12.95, June 1995,9780231096812 Show More
edited by Martha AlbertsonFineman 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,
“... gender similarity and puts its money on a gradual convergence of roles. This is not surprising: Martha Fineman, the collection’s co-editor, is also the author of The Neutered Mother and the Sexual Family, a much discussed book which proposes redefining the family in terms of cross-generational dependency rather than the sexual affiliation of a couple ... ”
