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Rejecting the mommy mandate: “Our culture made motherhood feel so inevitable”
Filmmaker Therese Shechter on why Ivanka is wrong to say “most important job any woman can have is being a mother”
n a culture that glorifies motherhood and obsesses over baby bumps, from Kate Middleton’s to whether Khloé Kardashian looks “visibly pregnant,” filmmaker Therese Shechter wants to explore a different kind of life: the child-free one. The director of documentaries "How to Lose Your Virginity" and "I Was a Teenage Feminist" is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund her next movie, "My So-Called Selfish Life," billed as a “film about not having kids in a culture where motherhood feels mandatory.”
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n a culture that glorifies motherhood and obsesses over baby bumps, from Kate Middleton’s to whether Khloé Kardashian looks “visibly pregnant,” filmmaker Therese Shechter wants to explore a different kind of life: the child-free one. The director of documentaries "How to Lose Your Virginity" and "I Was a Teenage Feminist" is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund her next movie, "My So-Called Selfish Life," billed as a “film about not having kids in a culture where motherhood feels mandatory.”
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