Synthesis Essay Mother

As we spoke about how her sex has influenced my mother’s sense of self, I was reminded of Christ’s article, Why Women Need the Goddess. One section that I felt really related with my mother’s experience was Christ’s statement about how women need the Goddess to reclaim the female body. In her article, Christ urges to reclaim the female body, aging, menstruating, birthing, and all as respected forms of women. She speaks about the denigration of the female body, especially in aging and in death (WSIR, 170). In today’s society, aging women are not highly favored. By a certain age (usually mid to late twenties), women are expected to be married and have children. They are expected to live out their lives in these relationships. Our society rarely speaks up about divorced women, though. Personally, I feel as though it is just assumed that, if you are to get divorced, you’re expected to …show more content…
My only religious experience as a child was attending church up until I was about 7 or 8 years old. Because I was so young, I do not really remember any of the lessons I was taught in Sunday school. The only memories I have of attending church were the mornings before Sunday service where I would whine and cry because I did not want to go (I wanted to stay in bed). With that being one of my few memories of church, it is not far off to say that I associate negative feelings with religion. After my family stopped attending church, we never went back or attended a different one. My parents never spoke to me about their religious, or lack thereof, beliefs when I was growing up. Because my mother was always close with me as a child, she was where I got my messages of what it meant to be a female. To me, she was hardworking and compassionate, but quiet. I wanted to be just like her. As I got older, I started to realize that the person I had idolized for so long had her own insects. I realized that I didn’t want to have the same experiences for