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 ‘childbirth’
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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