Word: motherhood
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Everything in her life continued to be material for her writing. "I knew much more," she said, "when I was no longer a tourist to the world of work and the world of motherhood." Tillie stands among a handful of women writers who have taken motherhood and work as the central theme of their novels...
...tyrannical conventions of the American family. Both the need for population control and the urgency of women's rights impelled various writers to launch polemics against having kids. It was not an antichild so much as an antiparent movement. Among the voices raised against the tyrannies of automatic motherhood was that of Betty Rollin, who is now a correspondent for NBC News. "Motherhood is in trouble, and it ought to be," she wrote. "A rude question is long overdue: Who needs it?" The feminist Ellen Peck recruited Critic John Simon, TV Performer Hugh Downs and others to form...
...more scholarly The Reproduction of Mothering (University of California Press; $12.95), Nancy Chodorow occupies the middle ground. A sociologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, she agrees that a male-dominated society sets up mother-daughter conflicts, but she sees them in largely sociopsychological terms. By depicting motherhood as the most valuable state for a woman, she says, men are able to leave most parenting to women. This lets mothers dominate their children's emotional lives, and, as Chodorow explains, ensures the cycle's repetition: in what she calls the psychological "reproduction" of mothering, the daughter...
...Government, motherhood and free enterprise have given the nation a Christmas tree with such sublime harmony it is a true wonder to behold. The tree was ordered out of a seed catalogue by a son-in-law. As an infant it was tenderly watered by four grandchildren. At age six the blue spruce (Picea pungens) was a Mother's Day gift to Mrs. William E. Myers of York, Pa. Transplanted to her front yard, it was smothered with loving neglect for 15 years. No fertilizer. No watering. No insecticide. No pruning...
...Harvard in preparation for implementing improvements. It was not the time or place for impassioned--and somewhat easy--speeches on the need to minister to student pedagogical needs. (As one speaker pointed out, perhaps anachronistically but nonetheless cogently, being in facor of teaching is like being in favor of motherhood.) It was, rather, the place for listening to a statement about the shortcomings of Harvard as a teaching institution and considering the various practical means the committee was suggesting for change...