French philosopher says feminism under threat from ‘good motherhood’

Mar 13, 2010 English 1st Paragraph

To many, they are the wonder women of Europe: the Gallic mothers who juggle work and babies with an effortless cool and help keep France a beacon of fertility on an ever-greying continent. But, according to one leading feminist, the French model of motherhood is facing an unprecedented threat from a “dangerous” new brand of thought which seeks to keep women at home and make them the slaves of their children…

Read this on the Guardian.

Gallic: French or typically French:

juggle work and babies: succeed in arranging their lives so that they can work and look after their babies at the same time. (Like a juggler in a circus who throws several objects up into the air, and then catches them again and again and again.)

beacon of fertility on an ever-greying continent: France is a place were women are fertile and have (many) children. This is like a light or fire of hope in a continent (Europe) where there are fewer and fewer children and more and more old people (with grey hair).