From an interview in the November 28, 2018, edition of Le Monde with Élisabeth Badinter, conducted by Jean Birnbaum. Badinter is a French public intellectual and historian whose three-part history of ...

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ELISABETH BADINTER, a doyenne of French intellectual thought, loves to cut against the grain of her times. Over the last 30 years she has questioned the notion of maternal instinct and blamed ...

In The Conflict, the French intellectual takes American mothering to task. When a close friend of mine heard that I was writing something about motherhood, he—a resolutely feminist “he”—told me ...

I think we could probably go head-to-head for a long while on the question of who is better at doling out the guilt. I remember a set of ads from that National Breast-feeding Awareness Campaign I ...