Women should expect better not only during pregnancy, but after. It is not enough for individuals to care for new mothers. We need policies, institutions and structures that care for us too.
Author: Elizabeth Alsop
Elizabeth Alsop is an assistant professor at CUNY, where she teaches and writes about film, television, and 20th-century literature. She is the author of Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction, and her cultural criticism has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and The LA Review of Books. She is currently writing a book on the films of Elaine May.