What's striking, as Sharon Hays recently pointed out in The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood (1996), is how tenaciously we cling to intensive motherhood, as she calls this ambitious mission, despite its increasing impracticality and despite how guilty it can make us feel.
Intensive motherhood can make us feel bad about ourselves.
Intensive motherhood is practical and has no side effects.
A man bends over in the kitchen.
We had failed to uphold the law.
There are two museums on the grounds.
A woman drinks from her flask.
Few opponents don't extempt their own oxen from being gored.
The man is running away from someone carrying a chainsaw.