Elisabeth Badinter

Elisabeth Badinter is variously described as a philosopher, an elite professor, “a doyenne of French intellectual thought”, and an archaeo-feminist (whatever that means). She’s sure to be called a lot worse as her new book, Conflit, is translated and sold around the world.

Badinter is a French woman who argues the following points:

• That women are losing the freedom they have gained in recent decades because of the pressure to be a perfect mother – because they are now enslaved to their “tyrant” children.
• That home births and breastfeeding and other natural processes are mistakenly portrayed as a wiser and more authentic way of mothering.
• That the ecological movement is part of the problem, because its disdain for disposable nappies, pre-packaged food, and other modern marvels are forcing women to again be chained to the house once they have children.

She says, in short, that babies have become “the best ally of masculine domination.”

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