Motherhood

Quint essentials of Motherhood Motherhood is a word beyond comprehension because it is a boon conferred on all species of feminine character to get impregnated and beget a child/offspring. But as far as the human beings are concerned, begetting a child should be a sacred incident, rather than a mere accident. The mother and the child bonding occurs even before the birth of an infant, as the child gets connected to the mother in the womb by means of an umbilical cord which assists in carrying…

Representations of black women and black motherhood abound in popular culture and in popular contemporary thought. Cultural notions depict black women as sexualized and racialized Jezebels, unfit mothers, welfare queens, and even the impetus for social and moral decline. In response, the authors Kimberlé Crenshaw, Karen McCormack, and Loretta J. Ross use their texts Mapping the Margins, Stratified Reproduction and Poor Women’s Resistance, and The Color of Choice to dismantle, challenge, and…

newborn she has dreamt so much about? In speaking with many mothers, both within my own family, as well as on the postpartum unit, I have come to the conclusion that there are many different variables and steps for each woman to finally attain the motherhood role. These steps may include, finding out she is pregnant, feeling a kick or hearing a heartbeat during the pregnancy or prenatal visits, as well as finally holding…

In his critical work, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o posits that language is the conveyor of culture within a society. Having made the personal, artistic socio-political decision to only write in his native African language, Wa Thiong’o theorizes that the enculturation of English on African citizens is symbolic of the state of neo-imperialism, and that the ‘peasantry’ or ‘proletariat’ class is the keeper of traditional values. It is for…

According to Donna Bell “ Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else 's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing, even when you 're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.” All women enter motherhood with preconceived notions or a set of beliefs and expectations about what it means to be a good mom. We develop these beliefs from personal experiences with…

One of the greatest delusions I had about motherhood was that I, alone, was the superhero of women who would somehow be exempt from the discomforts that come with pregnancy. One of the greatest delusions I had about motherhood was that I, alone, was the superhero of women who would somehow be exempt from the discomforts that come with pregnancy. After all, I could party like Tony Stark and had the immune system of Wolverine. I could function on minimal sleep and still wake up eager to be a team…

In this interpretation paper, I wanted to talk about “On American Motherhood” the speech President Theodore Roosevelt gave to the National Congress of Mothers in March 13, 1905. When I first read the speech, I jotted down points I either agreed, found interesting and disagree with. Everyone has their own opinion on this speech and here is my conclusion. This speech was giving in front of the National Congress of Mother and it was intended for the lower and middle class of those times. He…

foster home and not really connecting with a family in a loving nurturing way. The way her childhood was, for her that was the way normal families interacted, very institutional. When her daughter Laura came along, what was missing was the process of motherhood because it was never instilled in her what caring for a child involves. I empathized with Laura’s situation yet I understand her mother’s reactions. I do not agree it is right, I just feel for her because some important childhood…

Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have produced groundbreaking work on maternity such as Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976). By decentering the male scholarly gaze across a variety of disciplines, these feminists brought forth issues related to maternity such as its complex and ambivalent nature, the social “reproduction of mothering” from mother to daughter, and its political and patriarchal constructions. Critiques of essentialist and romanticized…

Motherhood is an extensively explored subject within Greek tragedies. Most mothers in Greek tragedies play pivotal parts in the plot and contribute to the theme of the play as a whole. In the Greek tragedy King Oidipous by Sophocles, Jokasta’s role and influence as a mother shows that she is featured in the tragedy as an instrument of fate and to show how the role of a wife can conflict with being a mother; consequently, Jokasta’s roles are a major part in the meaning and outcome of the play.…