Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abigail Quigley McCarthy, Litt.D. For her efforts in the cause of women's rights while voluntarily accepting for herself a "life defined by others-by wifehood and motherhood...
...SOMEWHAT IRONIC--although possibly appropriate--that bookstores in the Square were pushing The Female Imagination for Mother's Day. Most of the writers Spacks critiques seem to have found motherhood a destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...
...start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again," ...the pain of motherhood focuses with special clarity her fear of life, representing the ultimate way in which women serve...
Shockley spoke first in his grandfatherly tone, deftly turning talks of sterilization into a defense of motherhood, and racial inferiority into easily sliced apple...
...within themselves. Through letters supposedly written to and by Mariana, they invent a cast of characters and unfold a baroque plot full of passion and intrigue. Interspersed with these letters are vignettes of other Marianas. Marias and Maria Anas, all trapped in some kind of "convent"--of marriage, of motherhood, of passion--and all somehow seduced and abandoned. And scattered throughout are poems and letters in which the authors speak in their own voices, voices that are surprising both in their explicit eroticism and in their unsparing honesty and self-doubt about the work they are engaged...