ABSTRACT
A babystrike would not be a huge sacrifice for middle-class white women. The practical difficulties in getting them to join a babystrike are daunting. It is plausible to believe that the girls and women in question will not refrain from early childbearing until society offers them both realistic alternative visions and the means to achieve them. In the last ten or fifteen years, feminism has gone on to emphasize other issues, such as sexual harassment, workplace equity, and pornography. Only super women have a chance of success in the public arena if they are doing a good job of child-rearing. A babystrike would be both difficult and risky, for it might be unsuccessful, or even leave us worse off than before images of Margaret Atwood's Handmaids Tale haunt the author. However, any bad outcome short of that one would lead women to forego child-rearing far more often than is now the case.
