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Capitalising babies : Comments
By Helen Lobato, published 24/11/2008All the 'mother wars' regarding paid work and stay at home mothers avoid discussing the new capitalism.
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On the other hand, if they choose to work and use some of their income to pay for child support... then they are exploited and abused by an evil, male-dominated capitalist system.
Another wonderful broadside from the Marxist side in the ongoing Mummy Wars.
I just love the final sentence: "The penetration of the values and assumptions of the market place seeps inexorably into every port of every relationship, however intimate." Such a marvelous mixed metaphor, and oooh, its got "penetration"!
Cheers,
Rhys.