"A ballooning group of young conservatives feel that the pressures they’re juggling as 20-something women have been made worse by the liberal feminism that defined their coming of age. Their anti-feminist distress is kindling for the continued rise of right-wing leaders urging women to work less and have more babies, even as their frustrations about ambition and wellness rhyme with those first fomented on the left.
Members of these circles are animated by a politically potent nostalgia for a way of life few if any women have ever experienced, one that belongs less to history and more to Instagram and fairy tales.
They are uneasy about the collision course of professional ambitions and motherhood. They’ve been taught to be skeptical of experts, convinced that they have been sold lies about birth control and have attached a sacred glow to being a 'mama.' White women especially seem concerned with holding on to a sense of social power and status."
~ Emma Goldberg
"Fighting for Femininity, Not Feminism"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/style/new-womens-right-feminism.html
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