Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond
And yet I couldn’t separate these ideas of choice and control, and I needed to understand where my experience of motherhood was empowering, where was it disempowering, where had I had choice, where had I lost that choice—and how did it help me better understand how sometimes to let go of control would be more healthy than trying to cling to it. So the book gave me an opportunity to explore and hopefully draw these questions out for others to understand as well.
HMM: I think you definitely accomplished that, as least for me as a reader. You used the image of the knot—you were untangling a knot but it wasn’t entirely loosened at the end, but you can see the different threads that are there and may never come undone. Shifting gears a little bit, one of the essays is about searching for community online, and this need for community is threaded through the book. I appreciate that you write about how online and other communities are sometimes really life-giving, and other times anxiety producing. What was the phrase for people who go to parks —
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