The Search for a New Mobilizing Issue: The Women's Movement After the Era

First, old women are devalued and marginalized. “Old” then moves from 60 down to 50, and then women begin to grow uneasy at 40 and 30…. Now we are seeing a kind of “child worship,” as politicians tell us that what's happening in our lives as adult women now isn’t important: what's important is that “the children are our future.” When this kind of belief in discarding the old for the new is pushed along the continuum to the ultimate, we have “fetus worship.” And when the fetus is more important than the woman who carries it, feminism is in deep trouble.