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Mothers

Frozen Freedom

Frozen Freedom

Artificial Reproductive Technologies like egg freezing are on the rise. For the professional-managerial class women who can afford them, they provide an uneasy freedom that stimulates ambivalence about motherhood, paralysis about mating, and compulsion around costly procedures.

Working Mother

Working Mother

The radical pamphleteer Susannah Wright does not fit neatly into the contemporary feminist imaginary. She is a woman these feminists would like to forget: a woman who understood her class allegiances and fought for the universalism of an objective, shared reality.

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

The Guardian That Never Sleeps

For almost ninety years mass anxieties about kidnapping and child abuse have driven the development of surveillance technologies focused on seeing and hearing children. How might these technologies impact the relationships between mothers and children?

In Pursuit of the Family

In Pursuit of the Family

Some of our biggest social crises could be solved by a major investment in one of the smallest social institutions.

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 50 Years On

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, 50 Years On

In their groundbreaking pamphlet, Ehrenreich and English railed against a medical system that suppressed and sidelined women. Fifty years later, their radical anti-authoritarianism is increasingly powerless against—and sometimes even an accelerant for—the ongoing commodification of healthcare.

Damage’s Top Ten Movie Moms

Damage’s Top Ten Movie Moms

We love our moms, and we love our movies. It’s Damage’s top ten movie moms. (Plus one because Almodóvar loves his moms, and plus another because RIP Shelley Duvall.)

The Left Should Leave Daycare Advocacy to the Libs

The Left Should Leave Daycare Advocacy to the Libs

The insistence on “affordable daycare” as a viable solution to the problem of childcare reveals a consistent devaluation of gendered labor. It might also negatively impact children themselves.