Word: motherhood
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...woman is almost considered an intellectual dropout if she's a mother and a housewife and enjoys it." The 36.5 million women now working constitute 46% of the American work force, and a growing number of them admit that they do not want to assume the burden of motherhood...
Among the most vexing problems is reconciling a career with the demands of motherhood. Susan Catania, 32, a Republican member of the Illinois house of representatives, takes her fifth daughter Amy to sessions of the state legislature and regularly repairs to a brand-new women's lounge to breastfeed the infant. Other women have solved family demands in somewhat less dramatic ways. Says Radcliffe's Horner...
...devout young girl; the social butterfly; the wife of an intolerant, driving man; not to mention that shadowed figure that has fleetingly presented itself to the public in recent years. All of these images are united in a portrait not merely of Mrs. Kennedy but of the ingredients of motherhood as she sees them. God, she believes, has special work for each of us to do, and there is not a moment to waste...
Friedan decries the "radical feminist rhetoric" which repudiates a woman's sexuality and right to motherhood. The mother of three, Friedan regards motherhood as an inherent and fulfilling part of womanhood...
...props and rigid poses was favored, so her impressionistic approach was frowned on at first. Her pictures avoid clean lines that trace intricate detail and fuse broad patches of light and shade. They don't intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep shadow...