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Aftermath – contesting gender equality

October 3, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] I approached Rachel Cusk’s Aftermath (2012) like someone visiting a fortune-teller at a fairground. In the book, she was to describe the break-up of her ten-year marriage and her struggle to restart life after the divorce. I wondered if I would see my own future written in her story. Cusk’s husband was the kind who’d given up his job to help look after the children and be a home-maker, letting her get on with her writing and work […]

Categories: Catherine Vigier, ZiR • Tags: gender, literature, parenting, women

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Children as Labor and “Parent Tax”

September 1, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Last weekend a teacher friend of mine paraphrased, half jokingly and while laying on a deck by a lake, the idea of having children as a strategy to produce free labor. This is not a new idea, but it reminded me of an article that Zeteo published last spring. In “Parenting: Infinite Responsibility,” William Eaton describes different scenarios of this same idea: There have been and there remain economic and political reasons to have children—for their labor and loyalty and for the alliances that can […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: child labor, childhood, children, labor, parenting

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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out—

July 7, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in. “The day I Left My Son In The Car” is a self-exploratory article that details Kim Brooks’s experience with the juvenile court system. Brooks, the author, explains how the decision to leave her 6-year-old child in the car for five minutes led her through two years of involvement in the court system after being accused of contributing to the delinquency of a minor (i.e., she left the kid in need of services). […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, memories, parenting

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Parenting: Infinite Responsibility

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

Steps toward a larger, if alien view of what parenting involves By William Eaton   Click here for PDF version (1) Few parents, and only occasionally, allow themselves to think, It is because of me that my child must suffer. Rather we sometimes think of all the many others and other things—rapists, wars, car accidents, bad teachers, infections—that (though we hope not!) may be our children’s lot. We wish we could save our children from some one pain and from all […]

Categories: Essay, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: birth, children, Freud, innocence, life, parenting, parents

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From economy to emotion: The changing value of children

May 12, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Jennifer A. Reich’s Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System is best know for its robust and compassionate analysis of child protection as a system. Yet in many ways, her book is also about the (ever-changing) value of parenting, families, childhood and childrearing. In just a few lines Reich, introduces the possibility that children’s value, once strictly economic, is now tied to emotional markers. She deconstructs current assumptions about family relationships to explain that: In the last one hundred years, children […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, families, family court, law, parenting

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The dark side of childhood: 3-9 Nov 2013 (ZiR)

November 6, 2013 by Alexia Raynal

A week of reading about childhood: 3-9 November 2013 By Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Managing Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 3 November 2013 I think the Metropolitan Museum of Art missed an opportunity to challenge modern constructions of childhood by naming its solo exhibition on Balthus Cats and Girls: Paintings and Provocations. Cats were, indeed, a big part of the painter’s persona. But I would never say that Balthus’s works are deep and […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: art, Balthus, childhood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, parenting, poetry, reading, sexuality

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Strolling among Words, 27 October—2 November 2013

October 27, 2013 by William Eaton

A Week of Reading from . . . William Eaton, Zeteo Executive Editor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading. Click for pdf of text of this entire week.] 27 October 2013: Brecht When this feature, one of my favorite parts of Zeteo, was getting under way, I suggested to my colleagues: Imagine you were strolling down Fifth Avenue or through Central Park and were taking pictures of people and scenes that caught your […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baudelaire, Brecht, ethics, Flaubert, Halloween, Jesus, Machiavelli, parenting, poetry, terror, theater

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