The Conflict: How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

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Elisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women’s equality. Here, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood. Attachment parenting, co-sleeping and breast-feeding – these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. She argues that the taboos surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable nappies, cots – and anything that distracts a mother’s attention from her offspring – have turned childrearing into a singularly regressive force.