Interesting review in the TLS this week:
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/stifling-with-love-motherhood/
I think I am only just starting to understand how our potential to be mothers is used against us. I wonder it creates the whole female socialisation thing and it applies whether you give birth or not. Germaine Greer mentioned it at the beginning of the Genderquake debate.
I don’t have much to offer on the topic. But I’m trying to understand some poor/ineffective choices I made when younger and how these were driven by a sense that not being likeable as a woman would be shameful. As a lawyer I enjoy the freedom to be disliked by the other side (especially when they or their lawyers are bullies or Aidrian-like wannabes).
Can anyone recommend any short essays or not-too-technical books to help me grasp this better?