Anchor: What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to intensive motherhood, as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.
Entailed: Intensive motherhood can make us feel bad about ourselves.
Contradiction: Intensive motherhood is practical and has no side effects.
Contradiction: she doesn't call this mission ambitious
Contradiction: Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Age of Motherhood (1996).
Contradiction: I don't care where you go.
Contradiction: I like to work out a little in the morning