Maternity

In Anne Sexton's poem, "Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward", she emphasizes that the bond of a mother and child is very special and important and cannot be easily severed. She centers on the theme of motherhood incorporating the literary devices of similes, metaphors, and imagery. The following poem uses the rhyme scheme a b a b, demonstrated through words such as "long", "bed", "strong", and "fed" in lines one through four. Because all of the stanzas follow this pattern, the rhythm is…

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Namesake well represents the womanist maternity through the characters. She shows that the immigrants in their attempt to stick to their own cultural beliefs and customs; slowly adapt the cultural and traditional ways of the foreign country. The first generation immigrants like Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli face cultural dilemma, but it is also the fact that they always do their best to retain their cultural identity traditions, values customs and beliefs. The term maternity implies the state of…

Pregnancy and birth Close the gap: Indigenous Health Campaign (Australian Human Rights Commission 2016) National Maternity Services Capability Framework (Standing Council on Health and Community & Disability Services 2012) National Maternity Services Plan (Australian Health Ministers’ Conference 2010) National Evidence-Based Antenatal Care Guidelines (National Health and Medical Research Council 2011) The Close the Gap campaign is a strategy that was made by several organisations to achieve…

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 understanding of maternity provide similar…

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be many years behind those of the United States. In some instances, this is not the case. The purpose of this paper is to present my findings of Irans’ advanced maternity leave and childcare policies along with their Family Planning policy success. Furthermore, I will recommend that the Iranian government look into funding women’s maternity leave and childcare, at least partially, to lower employer burden and to continue funding their Family Planning program. Family Leave and Childcare Policies…

Alberta Human rights Commission at this time claimed that amount the over 200 complaints that they had received in 1980, 48% of them were regarding harassment and discrimination based on gender . The end of the strike saw the Union granted 17 weeks of maternity leave at 93% of usual pay…

harassment, unpaid maternity leave, and receiving unequal pay. Because of these circumstances it is not possible for women in the workforce to achieve the American Dream. In a recent survey seventy-five percent of women reported that they had been targeted by other male co-workers. Forty-nine said that they had been harassed by male clients or customers. Thirty-eight had been harassed by a male manager. Women have faced sexual…

notion was introduced in the mid 1990’s with its main aim to lower litigation cost. Managing risk is therefore an essential factor in midwifery. Risk assessment, promotion and protection of safe child birth are key principles within the provision of maternity care. Working along women as they become mothers, midwives must come to teams that risk and safety are strongly related concepts. Safe practices decrease/or manage risk, while risks are assessed, prevented or controlled in order to…