Writer: Lina Meruane
Publishing: Literatura Random
House
Year: 2018
Pages: 192
IBSN-13: 978-8439734062
Mark: 9/10
SYNOPSIS
Rough and impious and full of
humour, Against children questions the cultural speeches that promote
the pre-eminence of the son and takes him to a despotic spot in the 21st
century. It is a revisited and extended version of the one published in 2014,
this essay is an agitator warning against the return of a conservative model
that plans to take women back to the domestic confinement.
A maleficent angel that go
across our consciences with impunity: it is the messenger of procreation. In
this diatribe, Lina Meruane analyzes the return of that “angel” that, protected
by the ecologist rhetoric, make imperious callings to the extension of the
breastfeeding, the intensive raising and a never-ending list of prescriptions.
From her controversial analysis about one of the topics more decisive and worst
discussed of our time derives observations about the rules of the contemporary
couple, the workplace discrimination of women and the current education system.
