The unfortunate country that needs mothers
Claudia Mazzilli motivates her choice of "non-motherhood" by deconstructing the stereotype of patriarchal motherhood, thus offering us a precious opportunity to explore the values of the mother in ancient matriarchal societies and in those still existing and marginalized or oppressed, as marginalized and diminished were the scholars who they shed light on these models of society, which have so much to teach the male chauvinist West.