Motherhood

Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece Review Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece, by Nancy Demand, focuses on the lives of women in that time period. It illustrates how their lives revolved around the oikos and being a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law. The book also conveys the limited evidence of women in Classical Greek medicine. Through the ideas of Demand, which she based upon other scholars’, the lives of women, their treatments in medicine, the risks of…

lost in the new technology of Brave New World, which causes them to miss out on some of the beautiful parts of life and eventually lead to their demise. Motherhood and the idea of a family was a concept completely forgotten in the new world, so when Linda had John she didn’t realize that she was taking part in the wonderful gift of motherhood. The idea of a woman having a child was of no use since technology had made it virtually impossible, so when Linda had John she was in shock. “I still…

I was born at 6:46 pm on March 16, 1999. When I was born, all of my vital signs were perfect. My lungs were clear, and functioning properly and my heart was pumping as it should have been. My mother was having issues holding me, as she was still shaky from the epidural, so my father was the only family member of mine who got to hold me before everything went south. He went home a few hours after my birth so that my mother could rest. The nurses had taken me from my parents and placed me in the…

Motherhood is a new chapter of a woman's life. Are all women ready to enter motherhood though? Women think about having children because of the joy and happiness they bring. That it's a necessity for creating a family. Women mention everything that goes on during a pregnancy but not after. In the book “Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within” by Elif shafak, discusses how her life changed after her pregnancy. Elif Shafak was a turkish writer, nomad, and a pacifist until she…

Margaret Laurence demonstrates Susan Maushart’s theory of the Mask of Motherhood, through the portrayal of the main character Stacey MacAindra. Stacey is the mother of four children, age of thirty-nine and has been married to Mac (Clifford) MacAindra for sixteen years, from the outside world everything seems fine in her life but at a closer look one can see the daily internal and external struggles Stacey goes through. The Mask of Motherhood is a theory that attempts to explain the suppression…

to flourish. First of all, in order for a child to thrive all they need is unconditional love. Love knows no gender; whether the unconditional love comes from a mother or a father it is existent in the child’s life. In the book Choosing Single Motherhood, author Mikki Morrison wrote that…

word comes from the Greek word “hystera,” which literally means uterus. Thus this disorder was linked to women, specifically women whom men considered to be disturbed in some way if they did not conform to society’s standards of domesticity such as motherhood or housekeeping. So it is no wonder that during this time period many stories were published with critiques on this so-called women’s illness. One such story was Charlotte Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,…

family financially, as financial strains leave “women in less advantaged households… no choice but to simultaneously be workers and mothers” (Coltrane, 2011). The shift towards an industrial economy, and now an intellectual economy, primarily affects motherhood, widening the gap between the ways upper class and poor women raise their children. Today, “for many, the workday has grown longer” and “the majority of American women are now in paid work” (Hochschild, 2011). As women are responsible for…

"The author to her book" by Anne Bradstreet gently uses the metaphor of motherhood to describe her relationship between her and her books. She utilizes this complex attitude to portray her perception toward her audience. She begins her poem by describing the books as her "ill-form'd offspring of her feeble brain". By establishing her written works as the child of her brain, She cared and nurtured her books until she was ripped suddenly of them by her friends. "less wise than true.....expos'd…

After a woman gives birth it should be the most joyous stage in her life. Entering motherhood is the most beautiful gift a woman can possess. Unfortunately, for the woman in the short story The Yellow Wallpaper it doesn’t happen for her. The woman in this story has a baby, and suffers from postpartum depress. Her husband and brother are physicians, their health advice for her leads to her being locked in a room. Dealing with isolation from her baby, family, and friends causes her to lose her…