The Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done / Sophie Lewis

Published: July 24, 2023, 5:35 p.m.

b'Writer, theorist, and recovering academic Sophie Lewis returns to Hell to discuss her Baffler article, \\u201cThe Good Enough Momfluencer: Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done.\\u201d\\n\\nThe article is a review of the book, \\u201cMomfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture,\\u201d by Sara Peterson. Peterson\\u2019s website says she writes about feminism, domesticity, and motherhood. Peterson also writes a newsletter about the myth of the ideal mother, \\u2018In Pursuit of Clean Countertops.\\u2019\\n\\nRead Sophie\\u2019s article: https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-good-enough-momfluencer-lewis\\n\\nThis is Sophie\\u2019s third appearance on This is Hell! She was on the show most recently in October of last year, 2022, to discuss her book, \\u201cAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.\\u201d You may also remember Sophie being on the show back in July 2019 to talk about her book, \\u201cFull Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family.\\u201d Not only were both those interviews selected by listeners as among the best of each year \\u2013 and replayed during our end of year \\u2018Best of\\u2019 special broadcasts \\u2013 but you can find both conversations by going to thisishell.com and searching on \\u2018Lewis,\\u2019 and, as always, they are free.\\n\\nSophie is currently hard at work on a book for Haymarket on enemy feminisms.\\xa0Sophie\\u2019s lectures are archived at lasophielle.org. Follow Sophie on Twitter at (at)reproutopia and support her work at patreon.com/reproutopia\\n\\nSupport This is Hell! at https://www.patreon.com/thisishell'