The Supermom You hear it a lot–especially around Mother’s Day: Mothers are super, (!) strong, and heroic. Their “profession” is the most important. Their bravery, inimitable. Their beauty, beyond compare. Motherhood as an outright cult following: All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. — Abraham Lincoln My [...]
Posts Tagged ‘child labor’
Motherhood and the Supermom
Posted in The Essays, tagged child labor, childbirth, feminism, Mother's Day, motherhood, Orgasmic Birth, Poetry, post partum, Pregnancy, writing on May 18, 2009 | 14 Comments »
The Labor Politic
Posted in The Essays, tagged big business, Cesarean, child labor, childbirth, cytotec, femenism, misoprostol, motherhood, pain killers on March 3, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Business Suits and Handshakes So, we’ve gone and turned the wonder of childbirth into big business. What’s new? We’ve done worse with our wonders: Love, death, sex, religion, art, war. If it can be sold, we’ll sell it. If it could be sold, we’ll invent it–then we’ll sell it. Now that I’m snug inside month [...]
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