Just because women have been liberated from many of the explicit forms of subjugation and sexism that accompanied domestic life, other forms continue to thrive, sublimated into the ideologies of ideal contemporary womanhood. Today’s mothers are expected to gracefully manage and maintain a high-pressure job, her children, her relationship, her domestic space, and her body. She is “free” to be pressured to be everything to everyone at all times, save herself.
