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Triwahana, Triwahana, and Desca Angelianawati. "Proposing Asian and African Motherhood through Literature: A Comparative Analysis." Indonesian Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS) 6, no. 2 (September 25, 2020): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijels.v6i2.2859.
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Motherhood is seen as one of the essential aspects in a humans life. Although several values concerning motherhood is cross-cultural, its representation varied from time to time upon locations and cultures. Deriving from this line of thought, this paper compares the differing portrayal of motherhood from Asian and African literature. Undertaking the library studies, this article illustrates the depictions of motherhood and seeks to underline the reasoning why it is manifested through the selected literary works. The novels employed as the objects of study are The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta and Ibuk by Iwan Setyawan. The finding extrapolates a global conception towards motherhood and how it is presented. It is concluded that the depiction of motherhood in the novels is employed to maintain a social construction that privilege patriarchy. The African motherhood may be different than what they call Asian motherhood. Yet mothers, no matter where they are will always focus on their childrens well-doing.
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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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Elias, Stanley. "Comparative Reading of Motherhood Identities in East African and Indonesian Literature." Jurnal Humaniora 32, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jh.49832.
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The study comparatively examines the representation of motherhood identities and the trauma of being childless to women in African and Indonesian literary texts namely Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Secret Lives and other Stories, Elieshi Lema’s Parched Earth, Ratih Kumala’s Genesis and Iwan Setyawan’s Ibuk. Central to the analysis of this study is the argument that the existing cultural and religious discourses significantly contribute to the ways motherhood identities are construed in the society. Of a particular note, motherhood is argued to be a desired position that every woman wants most and is ready to sacrifice for it. Importantly, marriage, religious orientations and orders of the patriarchy certify motherhood and its related identities in the society. On the other hand, childlessness or failure to bear a male child circumscribe women in reduced forms of their identities and so subjects them to psychological and physical trauma and of course a social stigma.
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Dove, Rita. "Motherhood." Callaloo, no. 26 (1986): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931035.
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Dove, Rita. "Motherhood." Callaloo 24, no. 3 (2001): 727. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2001.0130.
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Beech, Olivia Donati, Leah Kaufmann, and Joel Anderson. "A Systematic Literature Review Exploring Objectification and Motherhood." Psychology of Women Quarterly 44, no. 4 (August 27, 2020): 521–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361684320949810.
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Objectification theory provides a theoretical framework for understanding how socialization and experiences of objectification can lead women to place excessive value on their appearance—a process known as self-objectification. Despite the number of women that are mothers, the application of objectification theory to motherhood has been relatively limited. This review synthesizes the available research exploring objectification during motherhood. We conducted a systematic search for published and unpublished articles that quantitatively examined the objectification of, or self-objectification during, motherhood across five databases in March 2019. The search yielded 23 studies across 20 articles, which in combination revealed strong evidence of societal objectification of mothers and self-objectification by mothers. Effects were found for pregnant and postpartum women, in both community and university samples of mothers. Outcomes included more body shame, concerns about the negative impact of breastfeeding, barriers to breastfeeding, fear of childbirth, disordered eating, and greater appearance concerns in mothers, and sexualized behaviors and body surveillance for their children. Some evidence indicated that self-objectifying may be protective for mothers in certain situations, but it was mostly associated with harmful consequences. Finally, some evidence suggested that there may be age and generational effects of objectification, which may impact all women, including mothers. We hope these findings highlight the benefits for women to engage in healthy relationships with their bodies and to consider the functionality of their body as it changes in preparation for entering motherhood.
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May, Vanessa. "Narrative identity and the re-conceptualization of lone motherhood." Narrative Inquiry 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2004): 169–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.14.1.08may.
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Lone motherhood tends to be viewed as something a woman is, an identity that defines the woman. This article takes a different route into lone motherhood by focusing on identity construction in the life stories of four Finnish lone mothers. Faced with dominant narratives that define lone motherhood in negative terms, the narrators construct a counter-normative account of their lone motherhood through a dialogue with different cultural narratives on motherhood, independence and family. Furthermore, the social category of lone motherhood is not one that the lone mothers themselves adopt in their narrative constructions of the self. Instead, they attempt to create space for themselves within the normative narratives on motherhood and womanhood, thus refuting the idea that lone motherhood is constitutive of identity. At the same time, the life stories reveal how powerful the cultural narratives on motherhood and family are – lone mothers can challenge them, but they can never escape these narratives completely. (Lone Motherhood, Narrative Identity, Life Stories, Cultural Narratives)
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Mohite, Ms Swati, and Dr Pradnya Vijay Ghorpade. "AFRICAN WOMEN’S QUEST FOR MOTHERHOOD IN FLORA NWAPA’S NOVELS EFURU AND IDU." Journal of English Language and Literature 10, no. 02 (2023): 145–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2023.10215.
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The African classical tradition finds its development in African novel as African novels deals with variety of themes such as art, religion, apartheid, culture, tradition, ironies of life, colonial and post-colonial realities etc. African and Caribbean writing often celebrates black womanhood in a move towards a specifically African feminism. Mother is a person who nurtures and protects. African Literature in all ages celebrates motherhood and gives prime focus to motherhood in women’s’ life. Flora Nwapa, the Mother of female African Literature in English also treats motherhood as her main theme. Nwapa through her works portrays Igbo culture and Igbo Tradition. The lead characters in Efuru and Idu log for motherhood in their life and suffer in life because of it. Though successful in life in all other aspects they are considered incomplete because they are barren. Both the works deals with Motherhood and marriage as its prime focus and suffering of a woman and her quest for selfhood in the family and in society at large.
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Reeves, Kathleen. "From Choice to Possibility in Sheila Heti’s Motherhood." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 79, no. 3 (September 2023): 73–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2023.a909148.
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Abstract: Sheila Heti's 2018 novel, Motherhood, reorients the question of motherhood around possibility rather than choice. Misread by some critics as a memoir about the decision not to have a child, the novel instead emphasizes openness, chance, and change in order to articulate a form of freedom that is tied to indeterminacy rather than sovereignty. The novel points to the limitations of narratives of choice, suggesting instead that women’s experiences around reproduction await further description. Motherhood is thus engaged in the kind of project called for by the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray: to define motherhood from the perspective of women. As both Irigaray and Heti make clear, this project must be shared by all women, whether or not they can or will have children. Heti’s novel demonstrates that, over fifty years after feminism’s second wave, motherhood continues to be circumscribed by patriarchy, and it points toward a feminist motherhood
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Stynska, Viktoriia, and Marta Oleksiuk. "Historiography of the problem of motherhood in scientific research in Ukraine late XX – early XXІ century." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, no. 3 (357) (2023): 146–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2023-3(357)-146-153.
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This article provides a historical analysis of the category «motherhood» in Ukrainian scientific research late XX – early XX century. The following research methods were used as part of the study: systematic analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific, educational and professional literature, theoretical and structural clarification methods of conceptual installations. On the basis of references, the author reveals the essence of the category of «motherhood» and expounds the author’s definition as a category of social education: motherhood is a social and cultural phenomenon that requires the support of social education from the state, society, and society. The main task of institutions and families is to examine wishes and needs and help create the conditions necessary to ensure mothers' rights to health care, education, work and full self-realization. It is characteristic that history allows us to identify the challenges, issues and norms associated with motherhood and how they have changed over time. The study found that in references to the social domain, the category “motherhood” was considered from the perspectives of the biological (reproductive function), social (educational function) and legal domains. In the scientific literature, the category “motherhood” is the subject of analysis in philosophical, medical, legal, sociological, pedagogical, and psychological studies. The author presents her own ideas for a mother-centred approach, at the heart of which is to channel social and educational support at the macro, meso and micro levels to create the conditions for the fulfillment of mothers' rights in society and within the family. It concludes that historical research on motherhood addresses the role of motherhood in history, shifting conceptions of motherhood, and the psychological, socio-educational, economic, sociocultural, medical, legal, and political aspects of motherhood across time and context.
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Caesar, Terry. "Motherhood and Postmodernism." American Literary History 7, no. 1 (1995): 120–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/7.1.120.
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Thomas, Trudelle. "Motherhood as Spiritual Crisis: Memoirs of Childbirth and Early Motherhood." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 14, no. 2 (January 1999): 273–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.1999.10815223.
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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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Makaudze, Godwin. "Motherhood in Children’s Drama: Selected Cases from Collections on Shona Children’s Literature." Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies 35, no. 2 (February 7, 2018): 114–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/0027-2639/2894.
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Motherhood is a construct that is highly criticised especially by feminist scholarships for its alleged subordination, marginalisation and oppression of women. Motherhood as a position and its associated responsibilities are lamented and excoriated as the root causes of women’s disempowerment, docility and invisibility in society. Feminists also conceive motherhood as a position of the feminine that has little influence and is fraught with physical and emotional weaknesses. Using Africana womanist literary theory, this paper is an analysis of motherhood as conceived and conveyed through selected pieces of drama from Scheu, Hamutyinei and Musa’s Mitambo yavadiki navakuru, and Gelfand’s Growing up in Shona society: From birthto marriage, which are collections of Shona children’s literature, with the intent to ascertain this ethnic group’s attitude to and perception of the position, its roles and significance. The paper observes that among the Shona, motherhood is far from being an oppressive and disempowering position – it is a position associated with admiration, power, influence and affluence, important responsibilities, and hence, with visibility and significance. More so, it is not limited to femaleness; it is a fluid and flexible concept that allows even males to assume the same position and social responsibilities. The paper concludes that observations and assertions by Western-oriented scholarships need to be critically examined before being accepted as universal truths, and that indigenous cultures should be researched to establish their perceptions and conceptualisation of reality. It recommends that the appreciation of indigenous cultures’ conceptualisation of reality be approached from the point of view of participants of the culture in question, not outsiders.
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Vavulinskaya, Lyudmila. "Contemporary Historical Literature on Family and Motherhood in Postwar Decades (1945–1965)." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 3 (July 2020): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2020.3.4.
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Introduction. The paper offers an analysis of historical studies on family and motherhood in post-war decades published in the 21st century, gives an account of the achievements of modern historiography on the subject, outlines the tasks for further studies. These topics have become compelling because of the declining value of motherhood and a prolonged demographic crisis in Russia. Methods. The historiographic analysis in this article is based on the thematic-chronological method supplemented with the systemic, typological and comparative-historical techniques permitting the literature available on the subject to be systematized and analyzed. The article primarily focuses on publications by Russian historians. Analysis. The main specific areas of research on family and motherhood are characterized. It is remarked that the pool of sources available has increased, and new research approaches and practices have been introduced. Contemporary authors have focused their attention on the analysis of the ideological background and principles of the Soviet gender policy, on the machinery of constructing the myth about equality of Soviet women. New aspects have been addressed, such as family private life, domestics role in its functioning, family conflict resolution practices, change in womans biological status over time, socio-ethical meaning of government awards for women, womans image reconstruction in post-war Soviet press. Researchers characterized the various stages in the Soviet family policy, marriage and family relationships in urban and rural communities. Studies on the legislative regulation of the family policy, social support to motherhood and childhood in postwar decades continued. The significance of the measures taken in this period to establish a system of medical aid and social guarantees and benefits for mothers was emphasized. The authors, however, remarked the persistent double work load on women, inequalities in payment rates and career. Results. The substantial progress has been achieved in the coverage of the issue of family and motherhood in two post-war decades. The tendency for multidisciplinary research has been growing; new aspects of the problem have been investigated. At the same time, the issue of the organization of the family welfare system, womens value systems, their attitudes towards the social policy and methods of adaptation to the living conditions should be addressed in more detail.
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McClain, Dana C. "Rewriting Republican Motherhood: Mentorship and Motherhood in Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple and Mentoria." College Literature 46, no. 2 (2019): 343–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2019.0022.
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WILSON, HELEN, and ANNETTE HUNTINGTON. "Deviant (M)others: The Construction of Teenage Motherhood in Contemporary Discourse." Journal of Social Policy 35, no. 1 (December 22, 2005): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279405009335.
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Paradoxically, the focus on teen motherhood as an object of concern in the West has coincided with declining rates of teen birth. This suggests that the view of teenage motherhood as problematic is underpinned by changing social and political imperatives regarding the role of women in these countries. This article examines the literature surrounding teenage motherhood from the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, and explores the way in which normative perceptions of motherhood have shifted over the past few decades to position teenage mothers as stigmatised and marginalised. Two specific discourses – those of welfare dependency and social exclusion – are highlighted, and their mediation through scientific discourses examined. The increasing trend to evidence-based policy development has masked the ideological basis of much policy in this area and highlights the importance of critical evaluation of the discourses surrounding teenage motherhood. A critical examination of the literature suggests that teenage mothers are vilified, not because the evidence of poor outcomes for teen mothers and their children is particularly compelling, but because these young women resist the typical life trajectory of their middle-class peers which conforms to the current governmental objectives of economic growth through higher education and increased female workforce participation.
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Devi, Trishna. "The Treatment of Motherhood in African Culture and Literature." DJ Journal of English Language and Literature 2, no. 2 (December 19, 2017): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18831/djeng.org/2017021006.
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Bosanac, Peter, Anne Buist, and Graham Burrows. "Motherhood and Schizophrenic Illnesses: A Review of the Literature." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 37, no. 1 (February 2003): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01104.x.
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Objective: To provide an overview of the current knowledge on the impact of motherhood on women with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Method: The published literature was selectively reviewed and assessed, based on a complete MEDLINE and PsychLIT (1971 to current) search, including English and non-English journals and books. Results: Research to date into motherhood and schizophrenic illnesses has been limited by a number of methodological constraints, limiting the ability to draw conclusions and the prevention of relapses and mother-infant difficulties. These constraints have included: a paucity of prospective studies with initial, antenatal recruitment; variable definitions of the length of the puerperium; significant changes in psychiatric classification; the heterogeneity of postpartum psychotic disorders, with the majority being mood or schizoaffective disorder rather than schizophrenia; selection biases inherent in studying mother-baby unit inpatients; difficulties in life events research in general, such as its retrospective nature and confounding, illness factors; and the specificity versus non-specificity of childbirth as a unique or discrete life event. Conclusions: Further study is required to explore: the impact of child care, parenting and having a partner on the course of women with schizophrenic and schizoaffective disorders during the first postpartum year; whether women with postpartum relapses of these mental illnesses are likely to have slower recoveries than those women with the same diagnoses but without young children; and protective factors against postpartum relapse.
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García Fernández, Mónica. "Representations of motherhood in late francoist Spain: From catholic discourses to early feminist critiques." Feminismo/s, no. 41 (January 2, 2023): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/fem.2023.41.06.
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This article examines changes and continuities in the representations of motherhood at the end of Franco’s regime (c 1960-1975). Influenced by the approaches of the history of emotions, this study looks at the emotional prescriptions and norms associated with Catholic representations of motherhood and family, but also at the emotional counter-narratives of second-wave feminism in Spain. It draws on various sources, including popular and religious magazines, films, medical discourses, advice literature, illustrated books and feminist writings. The first section focuses on the most conservative depictions of motherhood at the time, those linked to Opus Dei, which praised the joys of prolific motherhood and resisted any change in social attitudes towards birth control. Modern in appearance, but very reactionary at heart, these publications intended for a popular readership disseminated an ideal of the self-sacrificing mother who never lost her smile or optimism despite the hardships of everyday life. The second section deals with a new type of advice literature for mothers aimed at disseminating the so-called painless childbirth method, which contained a conservative message about the role and emotions women should perform during labour. Thirdly, the article assesses the evolution of the most progressive Catholic discourse on motherhood and family in the 1960s and early 1970s in the context of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Finally, it studies some early feminist writings from the end of the dictatorship. In opposition to the patriarchal narratives, these critiques drew attention to the various types of violence associated with the experience and institution of motherhood.
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Biswas, Prakash Chandra, Md Abdul Kayoum, and Marzia Rahman Rochi. "In Search of Medea’s Atypical Motherhood in Euripides’ Medea: Cultural and Historical Perspective." International Journal of Applied Educational Research (IJAER) 2, no. 1 (February 28, 2024): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.59890/ijaer.v2i1.1336.
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This research aims to highlight the common traits of atypical motherhood portrayed in Euripides’ tragic play, “Medea” focusing on the character of Medea. The study explores the contrast between revenge and motherhood, showcasing how Medea challenges the traditional maternal roles which often emphasize nurturing and protective qualities. Medea challenges these norms and Conventional expectations through her complex and controversial actions by navigating the intricate interplay between love, revenge, and societal norms. The study employs a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating literary analysis, psychoanalytic perspectives, and cultural studies to unravel the layers of Medea’s action. Through a detailed analysis of Medea’s character, the paper examines subtle representations of motherhood, revealing the tensions between maternal instinct and the pursuit of individual agency. Additionally, the research investigates how cultural and historical context of ancient Greece influenced the construction of maternal roles in the play. By delving into the character of Medea, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics surrounding motherhood within the context of classical Greek literature. Furthermore, it invites reflection on the enduring relevance of these themes in contemporary discussions on gender, power, and societal expectations. Through this exploration, the paper aims to contribute to a nuanced understanding of maternal roles in classical literature and stimulate discourse on the portrayal of atypical motherhood in ancient narratives.
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T.A., Rezvushkina, and Karaseva N.V. "Feminist conception of motherhood by Adrienne Rich: motherhood as a personal experience and as a social institution." Bulletin of the Karaganda university History.Philosophy series 106, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 272–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31489/2022hph2/272-282.
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This article discusses the concept of the American “second wave” feminist, writer and poet Adrienne Rich, who had a strong influence on the American feminist tradition of understanding motherhood. Rich describes motherhood through personal experience and as a social institution. The work of Rich is known for its provocative nature, as well as for its depiction of prosaic motherhood experiences and personal details. The book has become a classic feminist text, and motherhood has become an integral issue of feminism. Rich combines examples from literature, research and real-life evidences in her text; she describes the experience of motherhood, from the period of childbearing to the growing up of children. A. Rich also talks about the hatred that mothers feel towards their child and the depression she personally experienced while raising three children. The author concludes that being a mother is one aspect of female identity, and not the only one. Instead of dismissing the problems of motherhood as unimportant, Rich delves into the problem of the crisis or loss of identity of a woman as a mother and the problem of that overwhelming sense of inadequacy that many mothers feel when raising children. The purpose of this article is to describe the main ideas of the American feminist A. Rich regarding motherhood as an experience and as a social institution. The scientific significance of the work is in the fact that A. Rich problematizes the fact that women themselves, being mothers, write little about their experience of motherhood and therefore the vast majority of knowledge and visual images of motherhood come to us through patriarchal culture as a collective or individual male consciousness. Adrienne Rich offers a feminine perspective on the fulfillment of motherhood when it is perceived as critical and problematic. The value of this study is in an attempt to comprehend the influence of A. Rich’s concept of motherhood on the feminist analysis of motherhood as a female practice and as a social institution
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CARR, HELEN. "Motherhood and apple pie." Paragraph 21, no. 3 (November 1998): 269–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.1998.21.3.269.
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Dieu-donne, Kouadio M’bra Kouakou. "The ‘’Four Too’’ in The Malinke of Odienne (North West of Cote d’Ivoire) Procreative Behaviours." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 33 (November 30, 2016): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n33p245.
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This paper aims at understanding the reasons for the existence of the “four too’’ as the level of motherhood risk in the Health District of Odienné. In that respect, quantitative tools (questionnaire, review of records) as well as qualitative tools (semi-structured interview, focus groups, literature and desk research) were resorted to. This range of methodological tool has enabled to underscore that the “too young”, “too old”, “too large” and “too close” motherhood, is a dominant practice in Odienné. This fact exposing women and girls to various health risks, is motivated by some socio-cultural logics. These socio-cultural beliefs about Motherhood, are out of step with the health recommendations.
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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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He, Guanqin, Koen Leurs, and Yongjian Li. "Researching Motherhood in the Age of Short Videos: Stay-at-Home Mothers in China Performing Labor on Douyin." Media and Communication 10, no. 3 (September 28, 2022): 273–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5510.
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Addressing the particular context of China, this article has two aims. First, it offers reflections on the possibilities and limitations of using user-generated short videos (vlogs) as research data both methodologically and ethically. We specifically explore the potential of centering vlogs as a new format for examining motherhood behavior across online and offline spaces. Secondly, it adds to the thematic literature on the (re)production and representations of motherhood. We critically examine the rising phenomenon in China of the stay-at-home mother, by exploring how these mothers use short video platforms. Inductively learning from the thematic analysis of short videos of stay-at-home mothers published on Douyin, the patterns in the data indicate three distinct forms of labor are performed through digital motherhood practices: domestic labor, affective labor, and entrepreneurial labor. Drawing on these patterns, we update the original framework of “motherhood 2.0,” which was coined in the 2010s to address mothering practices in industrialized western societies. We extend this framework and conceptualize “motherhood 3.0” by analyzing a type of Chinese community-based intersectional performance of motherhood, gender, and labor that we see emerging in digital cultural production centered on short videos. Mediated labor within online and offline motherhood practices is informed by social, cultural, and technological factors. Digital technologies and mobile media communication provide new means for stay-at-home mothers to navigate between their roles as devoted mothers and their pursuit of self-actualization.
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Gawron, Agnieszka. "Illness of the Soul, Body or Culture? Postpartum Depression as a Theme in Contemporary Literature." Prace Literaturoznawcze, no. 8 (December 1, 2020): 85–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/10.31648/pl.5660.
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This article describes the characteristics of postpartum depression (PPD), its etiology and reasons for making this phenomenon a taboo in contemporary culture. The author analyses cultural representations of postpartum depression, which she sees as one of the most important factors contributing to the phenomenon of removing the masks of motherhood (S. Maushart), growing in force at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Referring to selected examples from contemporary literature, and contextually also to film (including E. Şafak, N. Fiedorczuk, M. Susdorf, D. Barker,E. Atef), the author discusses the psychological and socio-cultural determinants of PPD, emphasising not only biological, but the mainly existential dimension of this experience and its strong connection to the contemporary norms of femininity and motherhood.
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Chan, Annie Hau-nung. "The Dynamics of Motherhood Performance: Hong Kong's Middle Class Working Mothers On- and Off-Line." Sociological Research Online 13, no. 4 (July 2008): 53–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1773.
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This paper examines the on- and off-line identity performance of a group of Hong Kong middle-class working mothers who are users of an internet based community. The development of my involvement in this community from lurker to participant and then to virtual ethnographer provides a unique opportunity to compare the on- and off-line interactions of an Internet based community. By examining the relationship between the dominant discourse of motherhood and these women's motherhood performances on- and off-line, three modes of performativity are identified and discussed. I argue that although there is considerable pressure within this community to uphold the dominant motherhood discourse, users’ reflexivity and subversion regarding this performance are evident in both on-line and off-line contexts. In particular, users’ performativity in what I call the ‘Si Nais behaving badly’ mode can be read as a reaction towards, though not necessarily subversive of, society's prevailing conception of motherhood. My findings throw light on how the structure of internet chat frames these women's presentation of self, and how internet chat exposes aspects of their self-hood, which portray a much more varied identity than the literature on motherhood currently suggests.
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RIBEIRO THIAGO DE OLIVEIRA, ARIANNE. "MATERNIDADE E CARREIRA: DESAFIOS DA MULHER NO MERCADO DE TRABALHO APÓS A LICENÇA-MATERNIDADE." Revista Científica Semana Acadêmica 10, no. 215 (December 15, 2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.35265/2236-6717-215-09462.
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The present work has as its theme the return of women to work after maternity leave. Its main objective is to understand how postpartum women manage to reconcile motherhood and professional career. In the literature review, the following were exposed: the evolution of the social role of women, the insertion of women in the labor market and the relationship between motherhood and work. Legislation stemming from maternity leave was introduced. As a methodological procedure, seven women with children up to two years old, who are mothers and professionals, were interviewed, in order to know their experiences and challenges in order to reconcile motherhood with professional life.The analysis of the data collected from the interviews was based on the theoretical foundations of bibliographic research. She made sure that, although a professional career has great importance for women, motherhood is a priority in their lives. It was observed that professional mothers face external and internal demands to perfectly exercise all social roles. It was found that, although reconciling motherhood and career is challenging and requires sacrifices, work is not only seen as a source of income, but also as a source of independence, satisfaction and pleasure.
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Baker, Regina S. "Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 702, no. 1 (July 2022): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027162221120759.
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Empirical studies link high racial inequality in U.S. child poverty to the higher prevalence of single motherhood among certain racial groups. But a growing literature is demonstrating how the impact of single parenthood and family structure on children varies by racial group, including evidence that Black children experience smaller single motherhood “penalties” for some outcomes, like education. I use Luxembourg Income Study data for the United States from 1995 to 2018 to further investigations of ethno-racial variation in single motherhood penalties for child poverty. I provide a descriptive portrait of the levels and trends of children living in single-mother households and of the poverty penalties associated with children living in such households. I also show that, on average, Black children experience smaller penalties from single motherhood and Latino children experience larger penalties, both compared to White children. I conclude with discussion of potential reasons for this variation and future directions for research.
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Moczydłowska, Joanna M. "“PENALTY FOR MOTHERHOOD” IN THE PERCEPTION OF WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT POSITIONS." Polityka Społeczna 591, no. 7 (September 30, 2023): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0053.9006.
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The purpose of this article is to diagnose the “motherhood penalty.” This concept includes the negative impact of motherhood on the situation of mothers in the labor market and the psychosocial effects of combining work and motherhood. This goal was achieved using the methodology of critical analysis of the literature and a survey study (survey questionnaire). The study included women who hold senior managerial positions in the business sector. The results allow us to draw a conclusion about the above-average mental and physical effort of women who combine the role of a mother with that of a high-level manager. They experience strong pressure of perfectionism and role conflict. Women in high-level managerial positions overwhelmingly did not accept the scenario of “deceleration” of career dynamics, choosing to take on a devastating workload or to hand over a significant part of the tasks of motherhood to others experiencing emotional costs because of this, such as emotional exhaustion and deep feelings of guilt.
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Erdmane, Elīna. "Mātišķība mūsdienu latviešu dzejā: Inga Gaile, Anna Auziņa." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 135–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.135.
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The article “Motherhood in contemporary Latvian poetry: Inga Gaile, Anna Auziņa” brings attention to and analyses a woman’s specific experience – motherhood, the mother’s role and identity in the works of Inga Gaile and Anna Auziņa, two bright Latvian poets, revealing the characteristics of a woman in contemporary social reality. The different experiences of women, intimate and other, reflection about the topical societal and cultural problems, which influence women’s lives, as well as protests against the inherited societal stereotypes regarding different women’s roles, including the many layers of a mother’s role, are all brightly depicted by both poets. The study looks for answers to topical, meaningful questions – what is motherhood, and how is it constructed? Can motherhood be only experienced by a woman? How does the experience of motherhood in real and literary terms differ from the cultural and societal view, in which mother is a symbol of selflessness and gentle care? What are the specific criteria for a mother’s role and how does reaching or failing to reach such criteria affect a woman? The analysis of poetry works is based on the theoretical and methodological field of feministic literature and criticism. The experience of motherhood reflected by the poets is divided and reviewed in four gradations: a woman’s attitudes towards the role of the mother, the fulfillment of her duties and her relationship with that experience; bodily experience (pregnancy, process of childbirth); the mother-child relationship (upbringing, a child’s role in women’s lives); motherhood and different familial models (the experience of a single mother, etc.).
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Awhefeada, Sunny. "Motherhood and Sundry Preoccupations in Hope Eghagha's." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001006.
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A significant motif in African poetry which critics have ignored over the years is that of motherhood. This theme has been explored by many an African writer, depicting its various manifestations – physically, psychologically, and spiritually. However, the metaphoric aggregation of the many aspects of maternity has not been met with the appropriate critical response. The aim of this study is to examine the foregrounding of motherhood in Hope Eghagha's . What is revealed is not a romanticization of motherhood, but a tear-glazed threnodic articulation of a mother's last moments on earth, though with telling glances at the past which poeticize the essence of motherhood. Also discernible in this collection are other sundry themes which, often with a certain cynicism, re-create the nature of humanity, complementing Eghagha's versification of motherhood. These themes – greed, wickedness, love, betrayal – are largely ignored in the evaluation of African poetry. The present study excavates them, arguing that they deserve critical articulation for African poetry to be seen as representing life as it is lived and experienced.
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Privett, Katharyn. "Dystopic Bodies and Enslaved Motherhood." Women: A Cultural Review 18, no. 3 (November 2007): 257–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09574040701612403.
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Kumar, Manasi, and Keng Yen Huang. "Impact of being an adolescent mother on subsequent maternal health, parenting, and child development in Kenyan low-income and high adversity informal settlement context." PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (April 1, 2021): e0248836. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248836.
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Background Women who have experienced adolescent pregnancy and early motherhood are disproportionately affected in terms of their health and parenting capabilities, as well as their offspring’s health. Guided by Stress Process and Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Frameworks, which posit that multiple sources of stressors and structural determinants of adolescent pregnancy influence adolescent mothers’ subsequent health and quality of parenting (Xavier et al 2018, McLoyd 1998, Conger et al 2010, Gipson et al 2008). These dynamics then further impact offspring’s outcomes. Using an Integrated Stress-SDH Process for Health Disparities model and we test on whether early motherhood is associated with and subsequent maternal and child health from two informal settlements in Nairobi. Methods A cross-sectional design with 394 mothers of 2–16 years old children who sought maternal and child health services at Kariobangi and Kangemi public health centers between October 2015 to April 2016 were recruited. Participating mothers were asked questions related to their adolescent pregnancy history, their current health, wellbeing, and parenting practices, and their child’s health. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine hypothesized mediational pathways that adolescent pregnancy history has negative influences on women’s health and parenting during adulthood, which also influence their child’s health and development. Results Our study supports that women with a history of adolescent motherhood have poor physical and mental health outcomes as adults after adjusting for demographic confounders. SEM results partially support the Stress-SDH Process model that history of adolescent pregnancy had negative consequences on women’s adulthood health, which also negatively impacted offspring’s physical and mental health. Conclusion Consistent with the Stress Process and SDH literature, we found consistent cross-cultural literature that adolescent pregnancy set the stage for, subsequent poor maternal health and child outcomes. Although history of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood was not necessarily associated with negative parenting, consistent with parenting literature, negative parenting was associated with poor child mental health. Findings suggest importance of providing integrated care that address health and parenting needs to optimize offspring’s development in instances of early motherhood.
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Arabovna, Murodova Dildora. "THE THEME OF MOTHERHOOD IN “WOMEN'S PROSE” BY MASHA TRAUB." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 3, no. 12 (December 1, 2023): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume03issue12-07.
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The article examines the work of the modern writer Masha Traub, we come to the conclusion thatin “women's prose” the same processes occur as in the rest of literature, processes aimed at finding new relationships in art and new methods of fixing them.
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Nkechinyere, Eze Mabel, and Nnani Henrietta Nonye. "Prose literature as a Means of Expressing African Culture a Study of Chinua Achebes things Fall Apart." Indonesian Journal of Applied and Industrial Sciences (ESA) 3, no. 1 (January 30, 2024): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/esa.v3i1.7375.
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This study examines prose literature as a means of expressing, African culture as presented in Buchi Emecheta’s “The joys of motherhood and Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart respectively. The researcher looked at the history of African culture in Nigeria. A number of critical essays in which some of the realities that portray African culture were reviewed. It came to lime light that there is African culture among Africans as opposed to the notion being portrayed to the outside world by the Europeans. The conclusion is that these works, Things fall apart and The joys of motherhood continue to be a demonstration to show that there is an African culture. This is the main outlook of the novels in this research.
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Reisdorfer, Emilene, Maryam Nesari, Kari Krell, Sharon Johnston, Randi Dunlop, Andrea Chute, Fernanda dos Santos Nogueira de Goes, and Inder Singh. "The Influence of Social Media on Alcohol Consumption of Mothers of Children and Adolescents: A Scoping Review of the Literature." Nursing Reports 13, no. 2 (April 13, 2023): 682–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13020061.
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Alcohol misuse is a common problem in many countries, where alcohol is often portrayed as a fun and interactive coping strategy for mothers to manage the demands of motherhood. Social media platforms have established themselves as a popular forum for mothers to share information and create an environment in which mothers may be exposed to and influenced by alcohol-related content. Given the increased social acceptance and normalization of drinking among mothers, especially during the recent pandemic, a critical analysis of social media influences on alcohol behaviours and consumption is warranted. A scoping review mapped the evidence on social media influences and alcohol consumption among mothers of children and teenagers younger than eighteen years old. Several databases were consulted, and the evidence was collated into two themes and seven subthemes. Factors related to alcohol consumption in motherhood include (1) community and social support, (2) coping and mental health, (3) motherhood expectations and identity, (4) alcohol consumption, (5) marketing strategies, (6) everyday issues, and (7) social media influence. Numerous social, economic, and health problems are associated with alcohol misuse. The current literature suggests that social media is a powerful tool to disseminate messages about alcohol and normalize mothers’ drinking behaviours.
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Cannon, Mercy. "Hygienic Motherhood: Domestic Medicine and Eliza Fenwick'sSecresy." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 20, no. 4 (July 2008): 535–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ecf.20.4.535.
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Cook Heffron, Laurie, Karin Wachter, and Esmeralda J. Rubalcava Hernandez. "“Mi Corazón se Partió en Dos”: Transnational Motherhood at the Intersection of Migration and Violence." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 20 (October 17, 2022): 13404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013404.
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In the recent Central American migrations spurred by violence, political instability, and economic insecurity, women grapple with whether and when to bring their children with them in pursuit of safety in another country, and with fulfilling their roles as mothers from afar. Drawing from the transnational motherhood literature and critical feminist theories, this interpretive qualitative study examined transnational motherhood grounded in the lived experiences of Central American women (n = 19) over the course of their migrations to the US. Informed by the principles of grounded theory, the inductive analysis identified five processes in which migration and violence shaped meanings of motherhood: risking everything, embodying separation, braving reunification, mothering others, and experiencing motherhood due to sexual violence. The findings contribute knowledge of how violence shapes and informs women’s migrations and decision-making, and the consequences women endure in taking action to mitigate threats of violence in their own and their children’s lives. The analysis furthermore highlights the specific and profound effects of family separation on mothers. The voices, perspectives, and experiences of migrating mothers and the ways in which migration and violence shapes notions and lived experiences of motherhood are imperative to research, practice, and advocacy to change oppressive immigration policies.
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Rokach, Ami. "GIVING LIFE: LONELINESS, PREGNANCY AND MOTHERHOOD." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 32, no. 7 (January 1, 2004): 691–702. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2004.32.7.691.
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This study examined the qualitative aspects of loneliness that pregnant women and mothers during the first year after childbirth experience. These were compared to the loneliness of women in the general population. Ninety-one pregnant women, 97 women during the first year following childbirth, and 208 women from the general population answered a 30-item questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised five qualitative dimensions of loneliness, namely Emotional distress, Social inadequacy and alienation, Growth and discovery, Interpersonal isolation, and Self-alienation. Although the literature indicates that pregnancy and motherhood are replete with loneliness, the present study found that those two groups had lower mean subscale scores than did women of the general population.
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Forter, Greg. "Time After (Postfeminist) Time: Gender, Capital, and Helen Phillips’s The Need." Diacritics 51, no. 1 (2023): 8–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dia.2023.a923441.
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Abstract: This essay reads Helen Phillips’s extraordinary novel of motherhood, The Need (2019), alongside recent theorists of post-politics. Phillips’s novel is illuminating because it reveals how an adequate understanding of the post-political requires supplementing current accounts with the categories of gender and heterogeneous time. The Need subverts the postfeminist articulation of politics as an arena in which “feminism” is practicable only in preemptively curtailed and diminished form. It does so by cracking open the “reality” enforced by neoliberal motherhood to show how its apparent solidity rests on the excision of alternate times—on a foreclosure of the temporal otherness that is the condition for historical change.
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "The Native in Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature 72, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00104124-8255306.
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Abstract This article tracks the ethical ambivalence of the native. First, there is a nativism drawn out with reference to Melissa Kennedy and Gary Okihiro that reframes the native in a poetic impulse, asks for a redistributive epistemological change in knower and known, and can rescue nativism into an acknowledgement of complicity. Second, there are acknowledgments of complicity that can pluck nativism away from the divisive compartmentalization that it seems to foster, as can be seen in the work of Soumaya Mestiri. The article ends with remarks from Buci Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood to underscore a critique of nativism in the rural-urban interface in Nigeria that is globally instructive and to point out the fact that woman is never native.
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Braswell, Harold. "My Two Moms: Disability, Queer Kinship, and the Maternal Subject." Hypatia 30, no. 1 (2015): 234–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12125.
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Dominant Western discourses of motherhood have depicted disabled women as incapable of being mothers. In contrast to these representations, recent literature in disability studies has argued that disabled women can provide maternal care and should therefore retain custody over their children. This literature is commendable, but its emphasis on custodial rights excludes from the category of “mother” those disabled women who cannot maintain child custody. In this article, I challenge this exclusion via an account of my experience with my two mothers: my biological mother, who relinquished custody over me because of her inability to provide care, and my maternal grandmother, who raised me as her child. Theorizing this account, I argue that disability studies must adopt a conception of motherhood that recognizes both alternative kinship structures and mothers whose disabilities preclude them from fulfilling normative conceptions of maternal care. I develop such a conception by synthesizing Judith Butler's theorization of queer kinship with Donald Winnicott's rethinking of the maternal subject. I conclude by drawing on this flexible conception of motherhood to argue that my disabled mother's relinquishing of custody over me to her own mother was the very gesture in which she accepted and adopted a maternal role.
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Powrie, Phil, Lucille Cairns, and Carolyn A. Durham. "Marie Cardinal: Motherhood and Creativity." Modern Language Review 89, no. 2 (April 1994): 501. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735314.
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S, Pandiyammal. "Maadathi in Cho. Tharman Thoorvai's Novel." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-14 (November 28, 2022): 26–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s144.
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Life’s reflection is the literature. Right from sangam literature to date the literature pertaining to discussing men’s domination has suppressed women’s knowledge, women’s freedom, women’s rights, women’s personality skills and state of mind everything can be understood through others’ vision. In general, a woman is portrayed as a character whose job is to take care of her family, husband, and children. This article is based on the personality and self-confidence of Maadathi from “Thoorvai novel”. She is a simple person who does not have any reservations to mingle with others. She has ensured the survival of her husband and her responsibilities in caring for her family have earned her a passionate family leader. Her affection and punish whenever required towards her child revealed her motherhood. This article’s objective is to reveal Maadathi’s personality in helping her husband and her motherhood to lead a life.
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Anat Israeli and Inbar Raveh. "“He Did Not Embarrass Her”: Motherhood and Shame in Talmudic Literature." Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, no. 33 (2018): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/nashim.33.1.02.
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Valiquette-Tessier, Sophie-Claire, Julie Gosselin, Marta Young, and Kristel Thomassin. "A Literature Review of Cultural Stereotypes Associated with Motherhood and Fatherhood." Marriage & Family Review 55, no. 4 (June 20, 2018): 299–329. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2018.1469567.
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Charise, Andrea. "Articulations of Care: Motherhood, Memoir, Disability." Literature and Medicine 33, no. 2 (2015): 428–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2015.0023.
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Parry, Bianca R. "The Motherhood Penalty—Understanding the Gendered Role of Motherhood in the Life Histories of Incarcerated South African Women." Feminist Criminology 17, no. 2 (October 25, 2021): 274–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15570851211053265.
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The number of incarcerated women in South Africa has steadily increased over the last decade. However, as a minority in the carceral population of the country, their narratives are underrepresented. An emergent body of feminist, gender responsive research has found that motherhood is central to the narratives of incarcerated women. This study endeavored to document the life histories of 17 women who are incarcerated in the largest correctional center in South Africa. The narratives of these women explicate how the gendered role of motherhood impacted on their incarceration pathways, contributing to the developing literature of justice-involved women in South Africa.