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100 1  Badinter, Élisabeth.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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240 10 Conflit.|lEnglish|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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245 14 The conflict :|bhow modern motherhood undermines the 
       status of women /|cElisabeth Badinter ; translated by 
       Adriana Hunter. 
264  1 New York :|bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.,|c2011. 
300    208 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Originally published in France in 2010 by Éditions 
       Flammarion, Paris." 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-208). 
505 0  The silent revolution -- The State of Play. The 
       ambivalence of motherhood -- The Assault of Naturalism. 
       The sacred alliance of reactionaries ; Mothers, you owe 
       them everything! ; The baby's dominion --  Overloading the
       Boat. The diversity of women's aspirations ; Wombs on 
       strike ; French women, a special case. 
520    In this book the author Identifies vulnerabilities in 
       today's parenting models for women, arguing that current 
       recommendations are imposing 1950s era limitations at the 
       expense of women's health, fatherhood, and child 
       independence.  Progressive modern motherhood is seen as a 
       threat to women's freedom.  The author names a reactionary
       shift that is intensely felt but has not been clearly 
       articulated until now, a shift that America has pioneered.
       She reserves special ire for the orthodoxy of the La Leche
       League, an offshoot of conservative Evangelicalism, 
       showing how on demand breastfeeding, with all its 
       limitations, curtails women's choices. Moreover, the 
       pressure to provide children with 24/7 availability and 
       empathy has produced a generation of overwhelmed and guilt
       laden mothers, one cause of the West's alarming decline in
       birthrate.  The author has for decades been in the 
       vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. In 
       this book she points her finger at a most unlikely force 
       undermining the status of women: liberal motherhood, in 
       thrall to all that is "natural."  Attachment parenting, co
       -sleeping, baby-wearing, and especially 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 now 
       surrounding epidurals, formula, disposable diapers, cribs,
       and anything that distracts a mother's attention from her 
       offspring have turned childrearing into a singularly 
       regressive force.  This work is a scathing indictment of a
       stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full 
       potential. 
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650  0 Women|xSocial conditions.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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700 1  Hunter, Adriana.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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