Motherhood

Elaborating the mother daughter relationships, this chapter categorizes three genres of women presenting how they take motherhood in Indian context. Such mothers personify themselves as typical conventional mothers who carry womanhood and motherhood in accordance with imposed norms by male centric society; they are suppressed women but no courage to fight for them. The second types of mothers are more feminine who are very happy to perform their matured role as wife, mother and daughter in law,…

either to condone this reality or to finish this farce. However, this was not the toughest decision she took. After a while she has had to leave her children and start working abroad to provide them a better-quality life. In her article “Trading Motherhood for Dollars” Crisanta describes vividly that day “I thought I would pass out. But I did not stop. Because if I stopped, if I looked back, I knew I would never leave; and I needed to go. My dreams for my little ones were only half-fulfilled.”…

and further proved the Indians needed to be civilized. The Aboriginal mother were “political pawns” and blamed for the children’s problem thus, according to the Eurocentric view they were “un-fit” mothers. As they were portrayed as ignorant about motherhood, the state removed around twenty thousand Aboriginal children from their home to be sold to non-Aboriginal families. The mothers was judged through the European gaze so as…

In the novel Sula written by Toni Morrison, is a powerful and interesting novel. It has won her numerous of prizes such as the National Bestseller and the Noble Prize Award. Issues of motherhood is a major aspect of the novel, throughout the novel children lives are shaped differently than others, and they will be faced with obstacles. Gather and Grow states ‘‘that a mother is someone who nurtures someone who cares for the deepest places of your heart. Anyone can throw a meal at you or give you…

The Representation of Motherhood Women in the modern times are more recognized compared to women centuries ago. Nowadays, political movements, ideologies, and social movements are popular as they seek to define and establish the rights of women on the basis of equality of sexes. Under the feminist view, women have the choice to decide whether or not to use their bodies for pregnancy purposes. However, the movies The Blind Side and Steel Magnolias demonstrate that a woman can become an…

In the book Abortion & the Politics of Motherhood, Kristin Luker investigates the reasons where the abortion debate originates and why it has caused so much conflict between pro-life activists and pro-choice activists. After holding interviews of supporters in both groups, Luker’s experiment has shown that both groups possess contrasting motives based on their different and world views and beliefs. The pro-life and pro-choice activists have opposing views on abortion, especially concerning the…

Her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, played a key role in establishing her reputation. Walker often writes about race, and the difficulties of motherhood. Her masterpiece is The Color Purple. This novel deals with controversial issues such as poverty, domestic violence, and racism. Despite some harsh reviews, this novel has won awards including the National Book Award for fiction and the Pulitzer…

The Bean Trees is a story about young women who live at a disadvantage because of an not planned parenthood but is trying to improve her life. However, Taylor Greer, one of the main characters in The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver, fell into motherhood that was not planned, “…she sets this bundle down on the seat of my car...take this baby...it’s my dead’s sister’s…and walked away…”(Kingsolver 18). Taylor had to take in a baby because it was thrown into her car. Although wanting to reject…

Murray’s ambition was for women to have a better education and economic independences. Murray essay played an important role in the post-Revolution “Republican Motherhood” movement to challenge the role of women in society in the 18th-century. The Republican Motherhood movement was lead by Abigail Adams to argue about the education mother give to patriotic sons who were allowed to vote. The education that mothers thought to their sons was important to the government…

Judith Wright and Sylvia Plath both present different views on motherhood through Wright’s poem Mother To Child and Plath’s Morning Song. Wright explores the joy and liveliness of growing a baby by using a warm, slow, and tranquil tone throughout the poem, including enjambment, as if soothing a baby. In contradiction, Plath has an alternative view of motherhood, exposing the negatives of it at first, because in the narrator’s case it was not love at first sight. This can be heard in the tone…