Looking for the perfect Mother's Day gift? Why not smash the patriarchy
- Written by Carla Pascoe Leahy, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Mothers have often been associated with conservatism: linked to cloyingly sentimental cultural ideals or depicted as victims of patriarchal oppression.
In the 19th century, the middle-class mother was idealised as the “angel in the house”, while during the boom years after the second world war she was depicted as a devoted homemaker in...





