“This might be a good time to point out that I am in no way attacking families in which the moms work at home and the dads work in an office. I’m writing about a fairly specific community in which I lived when Bean was born. I was shocked at how many women I knew there who had husbands who wouldn’t, for example, change any diapers. They had children with men who thought that changing their own baby’s diaper was disgusting and beneath them, and therefore, the wife should do it because the poop would be less disgusting to a mom, or something. In any case, what I’m trying to present a snapshot of here is a traditional patriarchal, gender division of labor that both supports attachment parenting (since it supports the woman at home, holding her baby all day) and also makes it hard to practice (because it challenges the woman as Provider of Sex and bed as Place of Sex).”
- Sacrifice, Parenting, and Feminism — Feministe
- Sacrifice, Parenting, and Feminism — Feministe