I think in practice most women do reconsider work and family life when they have kids that it just is to something which inevitably happened my next-door neighbor is a breastfeeding consultant. She said from her experience absolutely without fail the women who are most likely to get post-natal depression were the ones who were certain during the course that nothing was going to change in their lives. The expectant mothers who were most on board with the fact that everything was now up in the air found it easiest to adapt. I didn't really have a career that I'd worked hard at and that I desperately wanted to get back to but there was literally nothing I could think of that I wanted to do enough to want
Louise Perry has been described as the most influential young feminist in Britain. She claims in her book The Case Against the Sexual Revolution that the contemporary world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn is harming women and she calls for a radical challenge to what she sees as the failed liberal feminism of the 20th century. Meanwhile writer Mary Harrington argues that the belief in the progressive march of history is misguided and that new technology, far from liberating women, has trapped them into commodifying their bodies in the false belief that they are empowering themselves. In this conversation hosted by Alice Thompson, columnist and interviewer at The Times, they present their case for why they think progress is at odds with feminism.
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