Motherhood

Emecheta’s novel “The Joys of Motherhood” is seen to confront sexual politics through the different lenses of women’s issues and cultural norms. Under the cite of motherhood, sexual politics, being a sexually cored and power-structured relationship, proposes that difference ultimately creates hierarchy. This is seen through the ideas of relation, freedom, domination and use/abuse conveyed in and throughout sexual politics as well as in Emecheta’s novel. Relation under sexual poltics, considering…

Single Motherhood in The Bean Trees In the United States, the effects of single-parent family life on children fall into two categories: 1) those attributed to the lower socioeconomic status of single parents and 2) the short-term consequences of divorce that moderate over time (Jrank 1). A single-parent family can be defined as a family where a parent lives with a dependent child/children, within either a house just for them, or a larger household, without a partner and/or spouse. Raising a…

Who Motherhood Made Me Having a child is a magical thing, not only do you provide them life for 9 months before they are born, you raise and shape them into someone you are proud of. But you are not only shaping them, they are shaping you also. In just 9 short months my son has shaped me into the person I am today and continues to shape me to be a better person everyday. He has taught me the true meaning of loving someone despite their flaws and the big picture is always made up of beautiful,…

Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Fire-Dwellers, evidently illustrates Susan Maushart’s theory, the Mask of Motherhood, through the protagonist, Stacey MacAindra struggles to cope and maintain a balance between her internal and external self, the pressure to be a “good” mother, and her consistent self-blame. In her theory, Maushart discusses how the mask of motherhood oppresses women and their ability to freely talk about how they really feel. Furthermore, she talks about the side-effects that may…

“Deformed Motherhood in the Bluest Eye” written by Navid Babamiri is a research article that explores and analyzes Toni Morrison use of mothers in the “Bluest Eye”. Babamiri closely looks at the impact that the lack of motherhood has on children. He narrows his focus to the African American family and how “ deformed motherhood” has played a pivotal role in self reflecting process of young girls in society. Mr. Babamiri finds a unique way to connect the lack of a mother's love and nurturance to…

Bell Jar, the theme motherhood is more relevant within the context of the protagonist’s relationship to her mother than within the context of her own experience of being a mother. Even though The Bell Jar is written in the first person, the reader knows little about the protagonist’s situation. The narrator’s descriptions focus on her condition at the time, and the reader learns little about her life afterwards. One page three, there is a subtle hint at the protagonist’s motherhood. Looking back…

women that they felt was necessary to update and change, much to the chagrin of the traditionalists of their respective time periods. The same can be said about both Republican Motherhood and the Cult of Domesticity. While overlapping, the two movements have many nuanced differences. The first to appear, Republican Motherhood was the post-Revolutionary war movement for women. Higher expectation in knowledge and education was the main goal in order to raise better American citizens. In contrast,…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a remarkable science fiction. The theme of motherhood reflects the influence of parenting on children. Mothers are expected to take a more physical role rather than just take care of their children by nursing. The parenting style has a profound meaning on building children’s qualities and personalities. Victor’s parents give him unlimited love that allows him to do anything. He lacks instruction and awareness of responsibility to others. After his mother’s death,…

Are the so-called choices for women who want to become mothers really choices at all? In the documentary The Mommy Mystique: The Anxiety of Modern Motherhood, the women Judith Warner (author) speaks to, in her book, are middle and upper class who grew up in the 1970’s, the first generation to go to college and graduate school in percentages that match their counterparts. Women who grew up with feminist eloquence, if not part of that movement, they were accustomed to modern standards for women’s…

Course reader assignment unit 2 Mothers seek freedom from unwanted pregnancies is a popular document published in( New York: Brentano’s, 1928) by Margaret Sanger on the heading “Motherhood in Bondage” Sanger was the first lady to open first birth control clinic in the united states in 1961, which was illegal at that time and she was arrested for that. Her initiative and tireless work in the field of birth control were adorable as the period of 1920’s was not an era of flappers and sexual freedom…