Explores several insights of Western and Indian feminists on motherhood, both as an ideology and as a practice.
In this text, Alison Stone develops a feminist approach to maternal subjectivity. Stone argues that in the West the self has often been understood in opposition to the maternal body, so that one must separate oneself from the mother and maternal care-givers on whom one depended …
This study of the abortion controversy in the United States argues that moral positions on abortion are intimately tied to views on sexual behaviour, the care of children, family life, technology, and the importance of the individual.
"The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed …
"The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face--social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth--are specific to women's role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppresse…