![]() ![]() ![]() Titled “Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?” Tolentino recounts her experience of her daughter’s first weeks and the shock, as so many post-moderns experience, of encountering a baby outside the confines of idle abstraction. ![]() Ostensibly a book review of Angela Garbes’ book Essential Labor, Tolentino’s essay is much more. Writing for The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino offers meditative reflections on what is distinctive about motherhood and how the experience shapes women. ![]() Even for the thorough-going progressive, the experience of pregnancy and giving birth to a baby can be so astonishing that voluble reflections on motherhood-not “parenthood”-flow forth. Certain subjects bring probing insights that defy partisanship or cultural divides. ![]()
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