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Feminism Against Progress w/ Mary Harrington

Red Scare

CHAPTER

The Economics of Being a Stay at Home Mom

I was unusual, I suppose, as bourgeois Oxford graduates go in just being rubbish at all the jobs I did up to the point where I had. But for me, it wasn't like that, there was nothing I wanted to go back to enough to be away from my daughter. The other thing is that you reprise this classic left doing economic argument that women have to work now because you can really no longer afford to raise a family on a single income. And of course, a lot of critics will say that this is narcissistic cope from modern women who are like reared in the lib femme paradigm of professional or sexual self actualization.

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