Minna Dubin’s viral essay struck a chord with mothers worldwide, but her follow-up book fails to universalize her experience.
”). The first half of “Mom Rage” squats at the intersection of these genres. The anger of mothers is overdetermined by the “white supremacist, homophobic, classist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, capitalist patriarchy,” Dubin writes.
Absent history or culture, every feeling in “Mom Rage” is negotiated on the terrain of power: who has it, who wants it, and who is denied it. Occasionally, power is rooted in a set of concrete practices and institutions, as in Dubin’s spirited discussion of hospital-based maternal health care. More often it is an atmospheric phenomenon, a feature of abstract entities, such as “the powers that be ,” or metaphors, such as “Motherhood’s PR team.
From this baffling relationship between self and other there can emerge an ambient feeling of unfreedom. The great responsibility and the great vulnerability of being a parent can be unsettling for one’s identity, in the past, present, and future. It can be difficult to recall with any certainty who you were before you spent so much of your time wondering, ruminating, fretting, or catastrophizing about another person.
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