Two and a half, really. Badinter does make several excellent points, but she loses me at several places. First, she complains about the La Leche League's privileging of upper class or comfortable women, and then she does the same herself by completely omitting discussion of them in any meaningful manner. Not only this, but in my opinion, she never solidly backs up her assertion that the "back to nature" movement, which is tied up with the ecological movement, is causing motherhood to be pushed as the only true path for women. She dances around things that, had she worked on them further, might actually have convinced me. All in all, it isn't a bad book, but she falls short in too many places.