Journal articles: 'Motherhood and feminism'

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Murray, Ross. "The feminine mystique: feminism, sexuality, motherhood." Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics 2, no. 1 (June 2011): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2011.576881.

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Baehr, Amy R. "Conservatism, Feminism, and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese." Hypatia 24, no. 2 (2009): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01034.x.

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This paper is a philosophical reconstruction of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's thinking about women and feminism, and an inquiry into whether there is a conservative form of feminism. The paper argues that Fox-Genovese's endorsement of conventional social forms (like traditional marriage, motherhood, and sexual morality) contrasts strongly with feminism's criticism of these forms, and feminism's claim that they should be transformed. The paper concludes, however, that one need not call Fox-Genovese's thought “feminist” to recognize it as serious advocacy on behalf of women and to include it in discussions about what is good for women.

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Aksehir, Mahinur, and Derya Şaşman-Kaylı. "The influence of motherhood in the construction of female identity: A subversive approach to motherhood in Erendiz Atasü’s novels." Journal of European Studies 51, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00472441211010891.

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Within masculine ideology the concept of motherhood remains essential to female identity. That is why it is important to focus on the representations of motherhood in literature, where the most controversial discussions of feminism can be found. The issue of motherhood remains an unresolved issue today, with opposing arguments even within the feminist movement. This paper aims to analyse the issue of motherhood in the novels of Erendiz Atasü, who has acquired an undisputed place as a feminist writer in Turkish literature. She undermines the traditional concept of motherhood and uses it as a tool for deciphering and transforming masculine ideology.

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Deepwell, Katy. "Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism." Arts 9, no. 1 (February 25, 2020): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010028.

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This essay is in four parts. The first offers a critique of James Elkins and Michael Newman’s book The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008) for what it tells us about art criticism in academia and journalism and feminism; the second considers how a gendered analysis measures the “state” of art and art criticism as a feminist intervention; and the third, how neo-liberal mis-readings of Linda Nochlin and Laura Mulvey in the art world represent feminism in ideas about “greatness” and the “gaze”, whilst avoiding feminist arguments about women artists or their work, particularly on “motherhood”. In the fourth part, against the limits of the first three, the state of feminist art criticism across the last fifty years is reconsidered by highlighting the plurality of feminisms in transnational, transgenerational and progressive alliances.

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Ferguson, Ann. "Motherhood and Sexuality: Some Feminist Questions." Hypatia 1, no. 2 (1986): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00834.x.

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This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power.

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Randall, Vicky. "Feminism and Child Daycare." Journal of Social Policy 25, no. 4 (October 1996): 485–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400023916.

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ABSTRACTThis article explores some of the main reasons why feminist mobilisation around the issue of child daycare in Britain has been so limited and its impact so modest. It describes this mobilisation, comparing it with experience in other countries and with mobilisation on other issues. It suggests that the modest achievement to date is largely attributable to factors other than the lack of feminist pressure. Indeed feminist reservations were partly a realistic response to these external constraints. But they were also a consequence of the particular character of second wave feminism in Britain and of the questions posed by the issue of childcare for feminists. These questions included the nature and proper role of the state, motherhood, the value of paid employment for women, social class and the tension between short and long-term strategies for social change.

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SHIM, JUNG-SOON. "Recasting the National Motherhood: Transactions of Western Feminisms in Korean Theatre." Theatre Research International 29, no. 2 (July 2004): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788330400029x.

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The image of the National Motherhood is the potent cultural code for Koreans. The word ‘Feminism’ in the Korean context is identified as a system of ideas originating from the West. What happens when these two disparate cultural/historical impulses meet at the intersection of modern Korean theatre? This study examines the cultural transfer of Western feminisms and feminist plays in the Korean theatre from the 1920s, when Ibsen's play A Doll's House was first introduced to Korea, to the present. More specifically, it analyses six Western feminist plays such as Nell Dunn's Steaming and Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother, by focusing on how the Korean women's movement and modern Korean drama movement intersect with each other in terms of historical and cultural background; how these two historical impulses interact with Western feminist plays in terms of the intentions and reception of such plays in the Korean theatre arena, and how the image of the National Motherhood, the potent cultural code for Koreans, intervenes in this process.

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Belliotti, Raymond A. "Marxism, Feminism, and Surrogate Motherhood." Social Theory and Practice 14, no. 3 (1988): 389–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract198814318.

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Taylor, Erin N., and Lora Ebert Wallace. "For Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt." Hypatia 27, no. 1 (2012): 76–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01238.x.

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In this paper, we provide a new framework for understanding infant‐feeding‐related maternal guilt and shame, placing these in the context of feminist theoretical and psychological accounts of the emotions of self‐assessment. Whereas breastfeeding advocacy has been critiqued for its perceived role in inducing maternal guilt, we argue that the emotion women often feel surrounding infant feeding may be better conceptualized as shame in its tendency to involve a negative self‐assessment—a failure to achieve an idealized notion of good motherhood. Further, we suggest, both formula‐feeding and breastfeeding mothers experience shame: the former report feeling that they fail to live up to ideals of womanhood and motherhood, and the latter transgress cultural expectations regarding feminine modesty. The problem, then, is the degree to which mothers are vulnerable to shame generally, regardless of infant feeding practices. As an emotion that is less adaptive and potentially more damaging than guilt, shame ought to be the focus of resistance for both feminists and breastfeeding advocates, who need to work in conjunction with women to oppose this shame by assisting them in constructing their own ideals of good motherhood that incorporate a sense of self‐concern.

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Yang, Dan. "Analysis of Caryl Churchill’s Feminism Deconstruction on Top Girls." English Language and Literature Studies 9, no. 4 (November 14, 2019): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v9n4p74.

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This study, based on identity and selfhood in postmodernism, probed into feminism deconstruction, which would help to interpret the postmodernism narrative trends in contemporary English plays. With the purpose to make sarcasms on “top girls”, she deconstructed feminism through four aspects: feminine characters disrespected other feminine characters, feminine characters gave up feminine and motherhood identities, feminine characters’ success in different times and spaces embodied their sufferings, and the play without male characters was full of male’s impacts everywhere. By means of deconstructing feminism, she made sarcasm on top girls and blamed the power systems in the current society.

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Lázaro, Reyes. "Feminism and Motherhood: O'Brien vs Beauvoir." Hypatia 1, no. 2 (1986): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00839.x.

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I argue that both Mary O'Brien's celebratory analysis of motherhood and Simone de Beauvoir's critical one fail, due to biologism and a lack of historical sense. Both approaches, I claim, are complementary: motherhood need be analysed both as alienating—Beauvoir—and as a potential ground for feminism—O'Brien. I conclude by suggesting that feminism can only reappropriate the female reproductive experience in a critical way.

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Omeragić, Merima. "THE MOTHERHOOD CONTINENT AS A WRITING SPACE IN THE WORKS OF JASMINA TEŠANOVIĆ." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (April 2021): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.7.

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The phenomenon of motherhood is a challenging focus for research in the feminist literary theory/critique. The motherhood continent as a controversial point of contention in the society has become (or remains) a polemicized field between the traditionalism, critical, essentialist feminism and epistemology. Advocating for the deconstruction of social postulates of patriarchy starts with a revision of the positive connotations of motherhood, demonization of abortion/birth control, and the right to birth self-determination. In the struggle for power and control at the waning of matriarchy, the androcentric order established the purpose, model and objectives of motherhood. The examination in this work destabilizes elements of motherhood in A Women's Book, The Mermaids, Matrimonium, and Nefertiti Was Here. The objective of this work is to deconstruct the concept of motherhood that is present in our paternal/patriarchal traditions by denouncing the harmful and deeply rooted stereotypes. Simultaneously the work exposes and highlights the need for affirmation of authentic feminine legacy, elucidates aspects of the mother daughter relationship, and promotes the accomplishments of regional literature. In this scientific approach to the phenomenon of motherhood, the work makes use of such theoretical concepts as: ideology of intensive motherhood, creation of body language and women's writing, motherly instinct, maternal ideology, matriarchy and mythology, the black continent, identification with the mother, as well as the mother-daughter relationship, the child's belonging, motherhood and non-motherhood and abortion-birth sterility. The inclusion of these themes in the narratives is an indicative question of the subjective affirmative experience of motherhood, where we find transcendental impulses for generating women's language and creation, which juxtapose ideological norms, intensity of motherhood and achieve autonomy in literary creation.

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Snitow, Ann. "Feminism and Motherhood: An American Reading." Feminist Review, no. 40 (1992): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1395276.

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Snitow, Ann. "Feminism and Motherhood: An American Reading." Feminist Review 40, no. 1 (March 1992): 32–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1992.4.

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Kim, Suzy. "From Violated Girl to Revolutionary Woman." positions: asia critique 28, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 631–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8315166.

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Feminism, both as theory and praxis, has long grappled with the dilemma of sex difference—whether to celebrate women’s “difference” from men as offering a more emancipatory potential or to challenge those differences as man-made in the process of delineating modern sexed subjects. While this debate may be familiar within contemporary feminist discourses, communist feminisms that stretched across the Cold War divide were no less conflicted about what to do with sex difference, most explicitly represented by sexual violence and biological motherhood. Even as communist states implemented top-down, often paternalistic measures, such policies were carried out ostensibly to elevate women’s status as a form of state feminism professing equality for the sexes. Comparing North Korea with China, this article explores how communist feminisms attempted to tackle the dilemma of sexual difference. Through an intertextual reading of two of the most popular revolutionary operas in 1970s communist East Asia—The Flower Girl from North Korea and The White-Haired Girl from China—it attends to the diverse strategies in addressing the “woman question” and the possibilities as well as limits opened up by communist feminisms.

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Stearney, Lynn M. "Feminism, ecofeminism, and the maternal archetype: Motherhood as a feminine universal." Communication Quarterly 42, no. 2 (March 1994): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01463379409369923.

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Usborne, C. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914." German History 15, no. 3 (July 1, 1997): 421–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.3.421.

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Quataert, Jean H., and Ann Taylor Allen. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany 1800-1914." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 23, no. 4 (1993): 801. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/206311.

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Maynes, Mary Jo, and Ann Taylor Allen. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914." American Historical Review 98, no. 1 (February 1993): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2166466.

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Kennedy, Katharine D., and Ann Taylor Allen. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914." History of Education Quarterly 33, no. 2 (1993): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/368360.

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Thomas H. Ford. "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Motherhood of Feminism." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 37, no. 2 (2010): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.0.0191.

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Heffernan, Valerie, and Katherine Stone. "#regrettingmotherhood in Germany: Feminism, Motherhood, and Culture." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46, no. 2 (January 1, 2021): 337–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/710807.

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Heath, Joanne. "Negotiating the Maternal: Motherhood, Feminism, and Art." Art Journal 72, no. 4 (December 2013): 84–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2013.10792867.

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Cossutta, Carlotta. "Maternal relations, feminism and surrogate motherhood in the Italian context." Modern Italy 23, no. 2 (April 23, 2018): 215–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.7.

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This article examines the surrogacy debate that has developed within contemporary feminist and LGBT movements in Italy, following the approval of the law on civil unions at the beginning of 2016. This debate has been marked by a deep fracture between those who see in surrogate motherhood a chance to imagine new forms of social bonds and those who consider that women’s wombs and newborn children can never be the object of an economic ‘exchange’. I will first analyse the most controversial positions held by some feminists who have participated in the debate, which revolve around the centrality of the maternal figure. Then I will outline a brief history of the social construction of pregnancy, linking it to changes in the marketplace and the birth of biopolitics. Finally, with the help of Angela Putino’s philosophical thought I will advance a potentially different feminist approach to the issue of surrogate motherhood.

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Faulkner, Sandra. "Crank up the Feminism: Poetic Inquiry as Feminist Methodology." Humanities 7, no. 3 (August 23, 2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7030085.

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In this autoethnographic essay, the author argues for the use of poetic inquiry as a feminist methodology by showing her use of poetry as research method during the past 13 years. Through examples of her poetic inquiry work, the author details how poetry as research offers Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies scholars a means of doing, showing, and teaching embodiment and reflexivity, a way to refuse the mind-body dialectic, a form of feminist ethnography, and a catalyst for social agitation and change. The author uses examples of her ethnographic poetry that critique middle-class White motherhood, address the problems of White feminism, and reflects the nuances of identity negotiation in research and personal life to show the breadth of topics and approaches of poetic inquiry as feminist research practice and feminist pedagogy.

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Barfi, Zahra, and Sarieh Alaei. "Western Feminist Consciousness in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 42 (October 2014): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.42.12.

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Feminism is a collection of movements which struggles for women's rights. Focusing on gender as a basis of women's sexual oppression, feminist scholarship attempts to establish equal rights for women politically, economically, socially, personally, etc. The Joys of Motherhood highlights Buchi Emecheta's critical view toward colonialism and racism affecting Third world women's lives. Besides this, Emecheta goes further to display African women's invisibility and marginalization-which were out of sight for a long time-in terms of some aspects of Western feminist discourse. Her creative discourse, in this regard, casts further light upon the issue of gender oppression in African feminist study. Hence, this study attempts to examine the way in which Emecheta furthers Western feminist ideology.

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Power, Nina. "Motherhood in France: Towards a Queer Maternity?" Paragraph 35, no. 2 (July 2012): 254–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2012.0056.

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This article examines the relationship between feminism, queer theory and the rise of popular debate over maternity and anti-maternity that has arisen in recent years in France. Through the image of ‘queer maternity’, that is to say, of women who question motherhood from the position of already having had children, the article tries to rethink the way in which feminism, queer theory and motherhood could be placed in relation to one another such that by questioning maternity, the symbolic order that places motherhood on the side of the state and futurity can itself be questioned as a whole. This has particular resonances in the French context where a discourse of ‘natural’ motherhood has come to dominate: the ‘queer’ mother who questions her maternal status is thus argued to represent a threat to the futurity of the family, the social contract and the existing order.

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Ankum, Katharina Von, and Ann Taylor Allen. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany: 1800 to 1914." German Studies Review 16, no. 2 (May 1993): 365. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1431676.

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Kowino, Hilary Chala. "From Victims to Agents: Rethinking Motherhood and Feminism." Journal of the African Literature Association 8, no. 1 (January 2013): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2013.11690216.

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Press, Andrea L. "The Price of Motherhood: Feminism and Cultural Bias." Communication, Culture & Critique 5, no. 1 (February 9, 2012): 120–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2011.01121.x.

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Ahmed, Hawzhen R., and Meram Salim Shekh Mohamad. "The Dilemma of Motherhood and Domesticity in Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn." Twejer 3, no. 3 (December 2020): 957–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31918/twejer.2033.26.

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This paper is a study of feminist theatre as a rejection of masculine superiority in theatre and social life. It examines a modern play that depicts the role of women as mothers and the conflicts defining the status of motherhood. It investigates thematic trends and objectives of feminist theatre, a theatre that started with the birth of second-wave feminism. It analyzes the reflection of women’s social and political lives as represented by this theatre. To meet that end, it examines Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013) that depicts issues of unsettled identities, women empowerment, and the dilemma of motherhood. The study explores the way this Play represents an imaginary space where women can play a revolutionary role by questioning their domesticity and careers. The Play is written by a feminist playwright, has an all-woman cast, and is produced by a woman director. Rapture, Blister, Burn, meanwhile, portrays the possible ways whereby the new era showcases an acceptable resolution for the unsolved dilemma of domesticity and motherhood. This paper correspondingly interrogates the theatrical depictions of the women characters, who come up with limited life choices and are trapped in the socially constructed dilemmas of domestic lives and the way they combat the social restrictions.

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Fakayode, Omotayo I. "Translating Black Feminism: The Case of the East and West German Versions of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood." Revista Ártemis 27, no. 1 (July 11, 2019): 132–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1807-8214.2019v27n1.46703.

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Feminism in Translation Studies has received a considerable amount of attention in the West, most especially in Canada from where it emanated. Also, studies in translation and Black Feminism have been carried out by scholars such as Silva-Reis and Araujo (2018) and Amissine (2015). There has, however been few studies focusing on the translation of literary texts by African feminist writers into German. This study therefore examined how Womanism in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood was transferred into German. Against this backdrop, the two translations published during the division of Germany into two states by different political ideologies were analyzed. In doing this, Postcolonial Theory of translation as conceived by Spivak (2004) was employed. The study aimed at determining how translation mechanisms have influenced the manner in which black feminist activism is represented in a distinct socio-cultural environment. This is with the focus to indicate how Womanism is represented differently in the two German translations of the African novel.

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Weiner, Lynn Y., and Lauri Umansky. "Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties." History of Education Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1997): 457. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/369887.

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McMillen, Sally G., and Lauri Umansky. "Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties." American Historical Review 103, no. 3 (June 1998): 1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2650745.

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BUCK, CLAIRE. "Engendering the political for feminism: citizenship and American motherhood." Paragraph 21, no. 3 (November 1998): 290–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.1998.21.3.290.

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Forcey, Linda Rennie, and Lauri Umansky. "Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties." Contemporary Sociology 26, no. 4 (July 1997): 453. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2655088.

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Lewis, Jane, and Lauri Umansky. "Motherhood Reconceived: Feminism and the Legacies of the Sixties." Journal of American History 84, no. 4 (March 1998): 1593. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2568237.

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Aston, Elaine. "Geographies of Oppression—The Cross-Border Politics of (M)othering: The Break of Day and A Yearning." Theatre Research International 24, no. 3 (1999): 247–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788330001909x.

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In the autumn of 1995 the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, UK, staged two plays which offer a dramatic treatment of the politics of motherhood: Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Break of Day (Haymarket Mainhouse, first performance 26 October 1995) and Ruth Carter's A Yearning (Haymarket Studio, 31 October to 4 November 1995). Neither play had significant box-office success, and The Break of Day received poor and hostile reviews from (male) critics, many of whom, like Paul Taylor for The Independent, commented on the play as a dramatization of ‘how the maternal drive can cause women to betray orthodox feminism’. My counter argument is that by addressing infertility as a feminist issue for the 1990s, both plays index the need to re-conceive a politics of motherhood in an international arena, highlighting the ways in which the biological contours of women's lives are globally mapped with the specificities of social, material and cultural geographies.

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Huopalainen, Astrid S., and Suvi T. Satama. "Mothers and researchers in the making: Negotiating ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia." Human Relations 72, no. 1 (April 17, 2018): 98–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726718764571.

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How do early-career academic mothers balance the demands of contemporary motherhood and academia? More generally, how do working mothers develop their embodied selves in today’s highly competitive working life? This article responds to a recent call to voice maternal experiences in the field of organization studies. Inspired by matricentric feminism and building on our intimate autoethnographic diary notes, we provide a fine-grained understanding of the changing demands that constitute the ongoing negotiation of ‘new’ motherhood within the ‘new’ academia. By highlighting the complexity of embodied experience, we show how motherhood is not an entirely negative experience in the workplace. Despite academia’s neoliberal tendencies, the social privilege of whiteness, heterosexuality and the middle class enables – at times – simultaneous satisfaction with both motherhood and an academic career.

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Ng’umbi, Yunusy Castory. "Betwixt and Between: Negotiating Parental Abandonment and Family Life in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine this." Utafiti 13, no. 2 (March 18, 2018): 154–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-01302009.

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Using African feminist and post-colonial theories, this paper examines the representation of the institution of family in Sade Adeniran’s Imagine This, in order to explore the character’s creation of a third space – one that is ambivalent and traumatic – in her context of divorce and family abandonment. As depicted in the narrative, a major reason behind such family tragedies is an overlap between patriarchy and the postcolonial state. Thus, through the protagonist’s troubled identity and traumatic experience due to her family’s dynamics, the narrative questions the role of a child in reconnecting fragmented family bonds. This heroine’s traumatised hatred of her culture and of the institution of motherhood raises questions about the future of African feminism. If this ideology marginalises culture and renders motherhood as an institution no longer centrally important to contemporary African women, then it requires critical engagement. I explore how the literary genre inspired by African feminism enters established socio-cultural spaces critically and interrogates family dynamics ruthlessly. And I query whether it offers any solutions to the dilemmas of women that are uncovered and illuminated thereby. I will argue that the child protagonist in this narrative is presented not merely as a victim of circumstance – existing as she does betwixt and between family identities that are simultaneously familiar and strange – she is also depicted as attempting valiantly to reconnect the fragmented family bonds.

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Dent, Tamsyn. "Devalued women, valued men: motherhood, class and neoliberal feminism in the creative media industries." Media, Culture & Society 42, no. 4 (October 16, 2019): 537–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443719876537.

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This article contributes to the literature on gender inequality in the creative workforce. Motherhood has been attributed as a determining factor of female under-employment or unequal representation in the creative industries, a problematic claim that distracts attention from operational excluding structures. The article considers why motherhood has become an identified explanation for female under-representation by considering the question: what sort of mother are we referring to when we talk of the creative worker? Revising the genealogy of literature on maternal practice from second wave up to recent concepts of neoliberal feminism, this article explores how class-based practices associated with motherhood have an influence on how all women are valued as creative workers. This is in direct contrast to men whose employment value increases following parenthood. The term ‘value’ explores how individual choices emerge in response to wider structural issues, providing a framework to consider the relationship between gender and class in the context of the neoliberal, creative industry.

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Frevert, Ute. "Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914. Ann Taylor Allen." Journal of Modern History 66, no. 3 (September 1994): 648–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/244925.

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Davies, Bronwyn, and D'arne Welch. "Motherhood and Feminism: Are They Compatible? The Ambivalence of Mothering." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 22, no. 3 (December 1986): 411–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078338602200305.

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Makombe, Rodwell. "Images of woman and the search for happiness in Cynthia Jele's Happiness is a four letter word." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 1 (January 26, 2018): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.1552.

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Over the years, African ‘feminist’ scholars have expressed reservations about embracing feminism as an analytical framework for theorizing issues that affect African women. This is particularly because in many African societies, feminism has been perceived as a negative influence that seeks to tear the cultural fabric and value systems of African communities. Some scholars such as Clenora Hudson-Weems, Chikenje Ogunyemi, Tiamoyo Karenga and Chimbuko Tembo contend that feminism as developed by Western scholars is incapable of addressing context-specific concerns of African women. As a result, they developed womanism as an alternative framework for analysing the realities of women in African cultures. Womanism is premised on the view that African women need an Afrocentric theory that can adequately deal with their specific struggles. Drawing from ideas that have been developed by womanist scholars, this article critically interrogates the portrayal of women in Cynthia Jele’s Happiness is a four-letter word (2010), with particular focus on the choices that they make in love relationships, marriage and motherhood. My argument is that Jele’s text affirms the womanist view that African women exist within a specific cultural context that shapes their needs, aspirations and choices in a different way.

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Grant, Julian, and Pauline B. Guerin. "Motherhood as Identity: African Refugee Single Mothers Working the Intersections." Journal of Refugee Studies 32, no. 4 (September 20, 2018): 583–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fey049.

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Abstract We explored the strategies that refugee single mothers used to manage socio-emotional, physical and economic challenges of raising children during resettlement in a Western country. Ethnographic case studies of 10 families and 12 focus groups were conducted. Bourdieu’s theory of social relations informed the primary analysis. Intersectionality was adopted as a secondary analysis, attending to the agency and empowerment experienced by the participants. Motherhood was identified as a key gendered capability important for the development of capital. Within motherhood, five core themes were identified, including ‘loneliness and sadness’, ‘not enough money’, ‘racism’, ‘struggle for education’ and ‘striving to connect’. Findings suggest the importance of a feminism that legitimizes motherhood as identity with attendant intersections of race, class and gender. Further, the theoretical link between motherhood as a capability and development of capital suggests that investment in structural resources could improve capability and outcomes for refugee mothers and children.

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Michalsen, Venezia. "Abolitionist Feminism as Prisons Close: Fighting the Racist and Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System." Prison Journal 99, no. 4 (June 11, 2019): 504–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032885519852091.

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The global prison industrial complex was built on Black and brown women’s bodies. This economy will not voluntarily loosen its hold on the bodies that feed it. White carceral feminists traditionally encourage State punishment, while anti-carceral, intersectional feminism recognizes that it empowers an ineffective and racist system. In fact, it is built on the criminalization of women’s survival strategies, creating a “victimization to prison pipeline.” But prisons are not the root of the problem; rather, they are a manifestation of the over-policing of Black women’s bodies, poverty, and motherhood. Such State surveillance will continue unless we disrupt these powerful systems both inside and outside prisons.

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Kurnia, Nandy Intan. "Motherhood in the American Woman Poet’s Perspective: A Short Glance at Allen’s Rock Me to Sleep." Lingua Cultura 9, no. 2 (November 30, 2015): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v9i2.829.

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Article scrutinized one of the works of an American woman poet named Elizabeth Akers Allen. The poem under study entitled “Rock Me to Sleep”. It was a portrayal of motherhood. The speaker of this poem is a woman who is longing for the love of her mother. She is seeking for a way to ease her pain since she feels that she has lost her own battle of womanhood. Although the mother remains absent, the readers of the poem can sense the powerful love of the speaker of the poem toward her mother. Method of this study was library research that carried out by applying descriptive analytical methods. Data were collected from the primary and secondary sources. Results of this paper are the writer of poetry wants to warn people that womanhood in the patriarchal society can create many problems, and the only remedy for those problems is motherhood. Article also proves that a writer does not have to be a feminist to produce a literary text which discusses the issue of women, which has became the focus of feminism.

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Akram, Ayesha, and Muhammad Ayub Jajja. "The Maternal Dilemma And Nuptial Ordeals In Jodi Picoult’s Fiction: The Lens Of Maternal Feminism." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 17, no. 1 (September 8, 2018): 19–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v17i1.8.

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Choice is an illusion non-existent in the lives of mothers; and selflessness to them, is not a decision but an encumbrance. This case is proficiently presented by Jodi Picoult in her novel Handle With Care (2009). Dealing with the issues of motherhood and nuptial ties, the novel raises a few important questions in the backdrop of mothering children with special needs. The novel introduces us to a helpless mother fighting for the survival of her dying daughter and gradually moving towards a troubled marriage and dissatisfied relationships. She is committed to saving her daughter’s life by whatever fair or foul means she can think of. This study examines why motherhood, is still the least valued and what are the factors that make motherhood suffer in the hands of other familial roles a mother plays. Another supplementary source My Sister’s Keeper (2008), by the same author, has also been taken into account since it also deals with an identical maternal crisis. Under the theoretical canopy of maternal feminism put forth by Andrea O’Reilly(2007, 2010), an exhaustive critical analysis of Picoult’s plea in question is done.

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Aliaga-Lavrijsen, Jessica. "Ectogenesis and Representations of Future Motherings in Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 43, no. 1 (June 28, 2021): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.04.

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After the boom of feminist science fiction in the 1970s, many such novels have tackled the different sociocultural understandings of gender and sexual reproduction. Conventionally, patriarchal thinking tends to posit a biological explanation for gender inequality: women are supposed to be child bearers and the primary caregivers, whereas men should provide for the family through their work. However, if men could share procreation, would these views change? A recent work of fiction exploring this question from multiple perspectives is Helen Sedgwick’s The Growing Season (2017), a novel that presents a near future in which babies can be grown in artificial wombs that can be carried around. As an analysis of the novel will show, The Growing Season creatively explores the existing tensions among contemporary understandings of motherhood and feminism(s), as well as developments in reproductive biotechnology, through the different perspectives offered by the heterodiegetic third-person narration and multiple focalisation. Ultimately, the voices of the different characters in the novel convey a polyhedral vision of possible future feminist motherhood(s) where ideas of personal freedom and codependency are radically reconceptualised—a rethinking that becomes especially important nowadays, for the biotechnological elements of this fictional dystopia are already a reality.

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Weber, Nora. "Feminism, Patriarchy, Nationalism, and Women in Fin-de-Siècle Slovakia." Nationalities Papers 25, no. 1 (March 1997): 35–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905999708408489.

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The association of nationalist consciousness and feminist ideology in Slovakia in the late nineteenth century was a protracted and uneven process. This conclusion rests upon the results of this study which examines the feminist and nationalist views of Slovak women intelligentsia who were at the forefront of Slovak nationalist efforts. It explores responses of leading Slovak women to the following issues of nationalist concern: traditional Slovak patriarchy, women's education, and Western feminism. It demonstrates that in Slovakia, gender was not the primary factor determining women's loyalties; there were other connecting allegiances and loyalties to the nation and the community. Slovak women developed their own unique concept of gender equality that aided Slovak nationalist efforts. In doing so they employed the language of motherhood, domestic duties, and religious commitment.Around the turn of the century, a small group of Slovak women intelligentsia attempted to reconcile their own agenda with contemporary nationalist, social, and political currents. Spurred by nationalist efforts of the Slovak male intelligentsia, middle-class women tried to determine what type of new nationalist woman should replace the traditional woman. This question was answered by five women, in four very distinct ways: (1) Ľudmila Ríznerová-Podjavorinská portrayed the goals of Western feminism as a danger to Slovaks; (2) Elena Maróthy-Šolthésová and Terézia Medvecká Vansová encouraged the growth of Christian feminism; (3) Marína Ormisová-Maliaková favored the introduction of pragmatic feminism in Slovak nationalist efforts; and (4) Hana Lilge-Gregorová argued for the establishment of Western feminism as the basis of social and national development. Although the personal lives of these five women represent the social and national distress of the Slovak people, they also show women's fight for the acceptance of new ideas which would improve the fate of their sisters and their nation. Yet this small collection of feminist intellectuals could not and did not effect Slovak public opinion in any substantial way. Their influence, except perhaps that of Hana Lilge-Gregorová, did not stretch beyond the Slovak urban middle-class milieu.

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