Published on Double X (http://www.doublex.com)
Broadsheet Weighs In on Katie Roiphe’s Essay
Katie Roiphe’s recent essay for DoubleX, on the narcotic effects of new motherhood, has generated quite a bit of heat in the blogosphere. Yesterday afternoon, Salon’s Broadsheet published a roundtable on Roiphe’s piece. If you can stand to hear a little more on the subject, I highly recommend it.
By: Nina Shen Rastogi
Posted: August 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Katie Roiphe’s recent essay [1] for DoubleX, on the narcotic effects of new motherhood, has generated quite a bit of heat in the blogosphere. Yesterday afternoon, Salon’s Broadsheet published a roundtable on Roiphe’s piece [2]. If you can stand to hear a little more on the subject, I highly recommend it.
Katie Roiphe’s recent essay [1] for DoubleX, on the narcotic effects of new motherhood, has generated quite a bit of heat in the blogosphere, with posts piling up from the New York Times’ "Idea of the Day [3]" blog, from Jezebel [4], and from the Atlantic’s "Daily Dish [5]," among others. I’ve been trying to keep up with the avalanche of comments on all these sites—and ours—and it’s a task that has proven fascinating and enervating in equal measures.
Yesterday afternoon, Salon’s Broadsheet published a roundtable on Roiphe’s piece [2]. If you can stand to hear a little more on the subject, I highly recommend it—I think it’s the most balanced, thoughtful discussion I’ve come across so far. And the format—six short, self-contained essays—helps clarify and distill some of the thorny issues the piece and the subsequent debate has raised.
Links:
[1] http://www.doublex.com/section/kids-parenting/katie-roiphe-my-newborn-narcotic
[2] http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/27/roiphe_motherhood/index.html
[3] http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/my-newborn-is-like-a-narcotic/
[4] http://jezebel.com/5346887/whats-the-deal-with-feminists-and-babies
[5] http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/this-round-to-katie-roiphe.html