Corporate imperatives and choicefeminism reshaping motherhood. 'Freeze your eggs and free your career', the April 2014 cover of 'Bloomberg Businessweek' proclaims. A young female executive in a defiant stance is pictured above the statement that there is a new fertility procedure giving women 'more choices in the quest to have it all'. Apple and Facebook are said to be leading the way in offering financial support for their employees to access fertility services as part…
An examination of how the realities of motherhood have influenced feminist thought is presented. There has been an active forgetting of the nurturing mother in feminist recall, which is a profound cultural significance and this is due to the complex political stakes and meanings bound up with what a culture remembers and forgets.
