The book "Disobedient Mother" offers a subversive and bold perspective on motherhood; a perspective that develops as a fierce critique of both "patriarchal motherhood" that enslaves women and "neoliberal motherhood" that subjugates the mother-child relationship to the demands and needs of the market.

With an incisive feminist lens, Esther Vivas destabilizes and deconstructs a series of deeply entrenched notions, providing different ways and tools to approach and ultimately experience aspects of motherhood such as infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, postpartum depression, and child-rearing.

By rejecting ideas like that of the "perfect mother" and "motherhood as destiny" as convenient myths of the system, Esther Vivas issues a call for disobedience within an emancipatory framework that empowers and liberates those who are mothers, as well as those who are not; those who wish to become mothers, as well as those who participate in child-rearing.