Bad Mothers

Bad Mothers

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'Bad' mothers are regular women who subvert the one-dimensional patriarchal ideal of womanhood. Feminist musings from writer and researcher Monica Cardenas.

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About Monica Cardenas

I write the Bad Mothers newsletter, and study maternal ambivalence & mother-daughter estrangement.