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French feminist philosopher Elisabeth Badinter has never shied away from contrarian opinion, particularly when it comes to motherhood. Jessica Bennett assesses her latest work, The Conflict, which ...

As the working mother of five kids—the youngest of whom was up all night alternately vomiting on me or crying feverishly—I am right there with you on wanting more ...

Editor’s Note: Elisabeth Badinter is the author, most recently, of “The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women.” Her three seminal works of feminism – “Mother Love: Myth and ...

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From the halls of the École Polytechnique in Paris, in a country where women are still resolutely women first and mothers second, where breasts are a female sexual organ first and a mammalian gland ...

To many, they are the wonder women of Europe: the Gallic mothers who juggle work and babies with an effortless cool and help keep France a beacon of fertility on an ever-greying continent. But, ...

French feminist and philosopher Elisabeth Badinter has hit a nerve with her latest book, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, by characterizing a number of seemingly ...

Anyone who is currently caught up in the maelstrom of parenting a small child in this country will be well acquainted with the shibboleths of contemporary maternal culture: "natural pregnancy", ...