Jessica Gavora—a.k.a. Jonah’s “Fair Jessica”—has a great review of the latest motherhood book Perfect Madness in the Washington Examiner, which, she says, “succeeds in exposing the hollow core of modern feminism.”

Judith Warner’s book is unreal but not at all untypical of left-wing feminism. Some more from Gavora:

In Warner’s account, women are increasingly leaving full-time work for full-time motherhood not because they are shaking off the baggage of feminism but because they are victims of economic forces they can’t control – i.e., 60- and 70- hour workweeks that are incompatible with family life for both mother and father. And the return to home and child, needless to say, has not been good for women.
“At another time, in another culture, without this era’s particular set of pressures, would Andrea Yates have become a supermom unhinged?” Warner writes of the Texas woman who drowned her five children in 2001. “Would she have killed her children?”
Warner resorts to the hyperbole of calling American mothers a group of Andrea Yateses waiting to happen because what she proposes next is so self-serving – and such a betrayal to ordinary American women – it will take the threat of mass child murder to bring it to being.
We need, she writes, “institutions that can help us take care of our children so we don’t have to do everything on our own.” Warner proposes that the government create a $50-billion-a-year early-education program, paid family leave and French-style mandatory, monthlong vacations.