Fall 2012

What does it mean to have a female conscience? Although it’s hard to put a finger on it, we recognize it in the people around us, and in the women featured in this issue. Marie Arana reports on a girl’s education in a mining town in the Peruvian Andes Judith Warner explores whether too much mothering is bad for us Sylvia A. Earle explores the world’s oceans and sea life
Fall 2012

Volume 88, Number 4

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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Memoir 
Criticism 
Art 
Photography 
Fiction 
Poetry 
VQR Vault 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Judith Warner is best known for her New York Times bestseller, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety (Riverhead, 2005), and for her New York Times column, “Domestic Disturbances.” She is a contributing wr

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