This day in age, many women are choosing to not have children, or are influenced by factors that should have any weight towards their decision to start a family. With the price of living increasing by year, women cannot afford to take time off work for maternity leave, being that many employers do not support this benefit. After conceiving a...
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Bea, a struggling widow who sells maple syrup to support herself and Jessie, her daughter. Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have had a hard time making ends meet since Bea's husband died. When Delilah, an African American woman, shows up at Bea's door, mistakenly thinking it's the address of a potential housekeeping job, a life-long relationship begins to develop....
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The feminine characters created by Almodovar are not mere inventions, they are constructed and inspired by the memory of his childhood surroundings and conversations overheard in his infancy between his mother, his sisters his grandmother and his neighbors. His infancy, his childhood and his youth were highly influenced by the women surrounding him. The purpose of this essay is to...
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The theme of motherhood is central to the plot of Emecheta's novel 'The Joys of Motherhood'. That is because motherhood is regarded highly in Igbo culture. According to the culture, the best thing that a woman does is have children. Thus, motherhood is considered a central tool of the patriarchal machine to control women. According to Emecheta, “Women have been...
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Many texts often explore androcentrism and are repressive in relation to women, perpetuating ultimately degrading representations of women and assigning cultural constructs of gender roles. As H. Bertens writes in ‘Literary Theory: The Basics’, women are traditionally seen with “helplessness and renouncing all ambition and desire”, where “female independence…gets a strongly negative connotation”. However, Lionel Shriver’s ‘We Need to Talk...
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Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ revolves around Sethe, a former slave who lives in a haunted house at 124 Bluestone Road. Sethe’s past is complicated: her two sons abandoned her, and her house is haunted by an abusive ghost that everyone believes is the spirit of Sethe’s dead daughter. As the book furthers, it is released that Sethe herself killed her daughter,...
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In the book ‘Circe’ by author Madeline Miller, Circe learns, through her experience of motherhood, the instant love and maternal bond between mother and child, as well as a mother’s impulse to sacrifice her own life to protect her offspring. Like many mothers, Circe feels overwhelmed by a baby’s constant physical and emotional needs. Although she feels she is prepared...
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The theme of motherhood is a key one in both the novel ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ by Lionel Shriver and the collection of poems ‘The World’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy. Motherhood is seen as a key element of the female experience, and both texts explore the connection between motherhood, femininity, and the way in which women navigate...
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This statement regarding the regress of maternal instincts that are perceived as ‘normal’ can be discussed in reference to Timberlake Wertenbaker's ‘The Love of the Nightingale’ (1988) and Sarah Kane’s ‘Phaedra’s Love’ (1996). Both postmodern plays were written after the 1950s, and with the use of reference to Greek mythology, perpetuate social and gender issues reflective of the time period...
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In his ‘First Manifesto of Surrealism’, Andre Breton describes Surrealism as “a pure psychic automatism through which it is intended to express…the true functioning of thought”. Automatism is a technique experimented with by the Surrealists that stems from Freud’s work. The artist will suppress conscious control of the process of making the art, allowing the unconscious mind to take over,...
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Motherhood is a unique and fascinated experience for some women. Many women’s experiences of being mother do not go well. Being mother is associated with many responsibilities and lifestyle changes. These transitional demands often become stressful for many females and leads to psychological problems. This often becomes worse for women who live abroad. Being mother out of their own cultural...
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Social constructionism are values that are created within a society to define certain roles. An example of this is gender roles in society, i.e., male and female roles. Motherhood is a period in a woman’s life, usually after childbirth where she looks after her child. Motherhood is an extension of the socially constructed female gender role. However, motherhood is not...
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Feminism and motherhood have a complicated and unique relationship. Since the formation of the women’s movement in Latin America, women have fought for reproductive freedom, pushed for economic equality, and called for universal childcare in an effort to achieve greater success in the public sphere. However, the women of Costa Rica remain faced with one problem: womanhood hasn’t been separated...
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In ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ Brecht undertakes a redefinition of motherhood. The true mother is no longer she who has borne the child, but she who is most useful to it: “What there is shall go to those who are good for it, / Children to the motherly, that they prosper”. Brecht’s notes to the play, which speak of ‘motherly...
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Being a single mother could be difficult sometimes. You begin to wonder about how you are going to cope with raising your kid(s) alone and start to ponder on how well you can be a good mum and meet up your kid's needs. There are a lot of problems that could arise from single parenting and it has a lot...
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What does being a mother mean? As a mother to my three-year-old son, I can say that for me, being a mother means discovering strengths you didn't even know you had and dealing with fears you never knew existed. Some people would say that it’s a good thing and others would say it's a bad thing. Personally, my mindset as...
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I came across midwifery 4 years ago when I was pregnant with my first child. The care, support, and compassion that was given to me by these amazing professionals motivated me to go on this career path. When I became a mother and I went through the whole process of being pregnant and giving birth, made me understand the importance...
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Being a mother is a 24/7 job, with no vacation, and no rest of your life. Being a mother is a special moment for every girl, like they found the light in a dark tunnel, but also being a mother is a hard job where you have to sacrifice your old habits, lifestyle, and love. This essay will talk about...
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Paid maternity leave is a fairly new topic, specifically within the United States. Less than sixty years ago, women were still largely considered as inferior to men in the workplace and were denied opportunities and jobs based off that fact. A considerable portion of women still took the stereotypical role of the ‘homemaker’, while the men brought in the income....
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Nepalese culture is one that highly values family, tradition, and custom. Nepalese beliefs about pregnancy, childbearing, and general medicine are strongly influenced by religious beliefs and cultural practices. It is important to understand these influences when providing medical care so that the individual’s beliefs are respected while also promoting the health and safety of mother and baby with evidence-based medicine....
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There are several factors that are non-legal that either directly or indirectly impact the right to education for teenage mothers. However, that variance is premised on a regional basis; albeit that, there are several other ancillary notions that affect the same and they inter alia comprise poverty, illiteracy, low literacy levels, and any more. This essay will explore the veracity...
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After Caryl and Granddaddy Scott’s wedding, they got an apartment in Atlanta, Georgia where Granddaddy Scott continued attending Georgia Tech until he got a degree in industrial management in 1955. He had spent his first year of college at Virginia Military Institute but had a bad experience with hazing and decided to transfer to Georgia Tech where he thrived. His...
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Asking who wants motherhood could be a little bit of a real understatement, in my opinion. Instead, we must always go deeper into it. What needs motherhood and why? Is it individuals, males, females, society or the world as a whole? Within the essay, ‘Motherhood: Who Desires It?’, written by Betty Rollin in 1970, I notice numerous unanswered questions and...
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