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The political project constraining American women, the one that gave us Dobbs, rests on a picture of motherhood as a woman’s entirety. Instinctive, total, self-abnegating, and therefore requiring no compensation, no consent, and no interior life. A reader of feminist theory may hear Silvia Federici’s “Wages Against Housework”: Housework “transformed into a natural attribute of our female physique and personality” so that it could go unpaid. “They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.” Fifty years ago, Adrienne Rich named it the institution of motherhood—distinct from the experience—and the institution now has a legislative program foisted on us by predators.
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