Motherhood

Osaki, Lillian. “Redefining Motherhood in African American Neo-Slave Narratives: ‘Beloved’, Dessa ‘Rose’, and ‘Corregidora.’” Ahfad Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 21–36. EBSCO. This journal article utilizes the writings of three black women, Toni Morrison, Sherley Anne Williams, and Gayle Jones, to consider the representation of motherhood within their narratives. However, the information that will be gained from this article comes to us from the Beloved section. Beloved, according to…

breed to fight, China, who is giving birth to puppies early on in the book. Randall and Skeetah’s friend Manny is cheating on his girlfriend with Esch, who loves him a lot more that he loves her. By having China and Esch both gain strength through motherhood and using imagery of powerful goddesses, Ward displays women as strong beings ultimately making the message of Salvage the Bones a feminist one. Esch has been trapped in a relationship with Manny, in which he has all of the power. Esch,…

After the American Revolution, “republican motherhood,” had rooted itself in the society of America. The “cult of domesticity” developed to promote women in their natural work environment, the home. While “republican motherhood” and the “cult of domesticity” were held in the hearts of many Americans, these goals were not obtainable by all women. The women of lower classes in society and African Americans were unable to obtain the goals of “republican motherhood” and the “cult of domesticity”…

CONCLUSION (THESIS 21.6.15) Poems by women writers on motherhood and mothering, discussed so far conform to the feminist theorization of motherhood both as a subjugating political institution and an enriching personal experience. The poems may not be exclusively written to expose or explore the themes of motherhood alone, but their approach to this topic is extra ordinarily rich and varied, offering fresh insights into how sexual politics and the related institutions, like marriage, religion,…

Mar. 2016. Television. The main claim from this episode is that although Petra should not be ashamed for experiencing negative emotions following the birth of her two daughters, she has been repeatedly exposed to the same dialogue that states motherhood is the most magnificent blessing in the world and nothing compares to raising a child, therefore Petra feels the need to be alone in her “shameful” postpartum experience. Since Petra has not been educated on the very real, and common occurrence…

In her memoir, Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth recounts the stories of unusual characters she encounters as a midwife in post-war London’s East End slums. The slums of the East End served as a popular tourist destination for the middle class. Some middle-class philanthropists visited the slums to comprehend the tragic situation of the working-class, whereas other, less-benevolent middle class citizens toured to satisfy their curiosity and to gawk at the poverty-stricken inhabitants (Koven). To…

she does not provide the traditional model of responsible ‘neoliberal’ motherhood. Angela Davis purports that “although the ‘housewife’ was rooted in the social conditions of the bourgeoisie and middle classes, nineteenth-century ideology established the housewife and mother as universal models of womanhood” (1981, p. 229). Since then, different waves of feminism, and contemporary postfeminism have constructed woman- and motherhood as a more differentiated identity in which it provides…

men, and employers alike have all been examined in order to gain a better understanding of family work dynamics. The three specific factors that seem to be persistently cited by women as factors affecting their ability to have it all include, the motherhood penalty, the societal pressures and emphasis of intensive mothering, and the stigmatization faced by many working mothers in their workplaces when trying to negotiate flexible work arrangements. These universal and highly influential issues…

viewed by many people to be a contradictory statement. The photograph appears contradictory because through this snap shot, Mann is stimulating the maturity of the children, and fostering the idea that all females will grow up to have a part in motherhood. Mann is challenging the global standpoint of femininity. It is an overall global view today, that whether you get married and then have children, or have children and then get married, most women will become a mother at some point in her…

3. Motherhood and Sexuality According to Rich, the motherhood exists in two different reals: “biological motherhood or ‘the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children,’ and motherhood as an ‘institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential—and all women—shall remain under male control’” (qtd. in Villar Argáiz 128). In Ireland, these institutional views of motherhood were crucial, the articles 41 and 45 of the 1937 Constitution (Shannon 262) linked…