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80. The Perfect Mother Myth and Social Construct of Motherhood

The Good Enough Mother

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Is There a Script of Liberated Motherhood?

There is no script of liberated motherhood that I could just sit here and do a podcast on. There are a few things I'll name a little bit later that can help give us some kind of guardrails. Ultimately we can't live a fully liberated motherhood individually unless all mothers are liberated. We need to opt out of it and reorganise in a new way. And the fourth point I wanted to make about the perfect mother myth is that the myth relies on binaries and absolutes.

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