Word: motherhood
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While women are the agents of society's reproduction, we often assume that all women will be mothers. Motherhood, impending or otherwise, can reduce women to mere contingent value. The growing juridical expansion of fetal rights has started to erode women's personal autonomy. The focus on the biological differences between the sexes also perpetuates a system of sex-discrimination, with biological separation being translated into legal distinctions...
Women's roles in contemporary society are also challenged in Doris Salcedo's "Untitled, 1992," a baby cribencased in wire. The work suggests "that motherhood can become obsessive and claustrophobic." The piece also forces the viewer to look at a commonplace object in an entirely...
...been open about the infraction from the start. She blamed her husband for having failed to file Labor Department papers in a timely fashion, saying, "I would have pushed to make it more expeditious." She assumed responsibility for the lapse in judgment but blamed it on the pressures of motherhood...
Jack Nicholson read the words of Abraham Lincoln. Aretha Franklin, a natural woman in a natural fur, sang a hymn to single motherhood from Les Miserables. Kermit the Frog sent Gonzo the Great searching for the White House. Barbra Streisand performed a knockout set and gave her benediction to the party's Arkansas hosts. Warren Beatty, recently married, spoke of political honeymoons. En Vogue and Boys II Men showed that a cappella renditions of The Star-Spangled Banner could have art and soul. Michael Jackson led a chorus of glamourati in We Are the World. Some geezer band from...
...reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...