The Diaper Manifesto
The Diaper Manifesto
We Need a Child-Rearing Movement
This chapter explores the debate over child rearing within the context of sexual equality. The influx of mothers into the labor force has produced a child care crisis with radical implications for the family, work, and the condition of women. For purposes of media agonizing, the problem has been defined in narrowly pragmatic, thoroughly sexist terms: how to get mothers enough help so they can keep doing their double duty, inside and outside the home. If there is any issue that can revitalize contemporary feminism, this is surely it. But it’s not simply a question of getting out there and organizing. Feminists need to have to have a vision, to figure out what they really want. Feminist thinking on the family centered on the relations between men and women, rather than parents and children. They must fight for economic and social support through a radical child-rearing movement that can operate on several fronts at once. In addition to demanding a national child care program, such movement should immediately raise the issue of work.
Keywords: child rearing, sexual equality, mothers, child care, family, work, women, feminism, parents, children
Minnesota Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
