The Mommy Wars
June 17th, 2006
Sorry for the interruption.
As I am still in the middle of my review of Hyper-Parenting (see my recent posts), I probably won’t get to my review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars by Miriam Peskowitz until next week. By then, the Washington Post article “Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms” may no longer be available.
It is currently available here. I think you need to subscribe with free membership to be able to read it. It’s worth it. I’m angry, very angry. I will be saving the text to pick it apart right after my review of Peskowitz’s book.
Addendum: As The Washington Post is linking to this post, I feel that I must write at least a little of what made me so angry. What has upset me is not that Ms. Hirshman has “come out full blast for women who work” but that she has added fuel to the fire of the “Mommy Wars” without doing anything to help reduce the divisiveness perpetuated by today’s media and without offering some real solutions to mothers (and fathers) who wish for more varied opportunites to combine paid work and unpaid “care work”. Stating “You make me want to vomit too” is not going to help us get anywhere with this important social issue.
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6 Comments Add your own
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momof3feistykids | June 17th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
I look forward to your reviews and comments!
2. laurie | June 18th, 2006 at 1:12 am
I don’t get what is so hard to understand about the fact that our babies are primates and therefore need the same care all primates have evolved to need - many years of their mother’s milk and in their mother’s arms.
3. Nat | June 18th, 2006 at 3:23 am
May I suggest that you read the article with an open mind? If you cannot (or will not, as the case may be) then I suggest that at a minimum you commit to paper exactly what your preconceptions of the article are. Then you can analyze the differences between your preconceptions and what the essay actually said. This exercise would be good for you, I think.
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moonshadows | June 18th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Nat - Exactly. That’s why I made no comment about *why* I was angry. I think you may have preconcieved notions of why the article angered me so!
5. Imperfect Genius » &hellip | June 19th, 2006 at 2:21 am
[…] Moonshadows welcomes pointers on conjuring up an Elevator Speech and seethes over a blogger who adds fuel to the Mommy Wars. […]
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moonshadows | June 21st, 2006 at 10:09 pm
It’s coming soon, and it is worse than I thought it was going to be ….
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