...In The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls, Liz is an exceptionally intelligent and independent child for someone her age, of only fifteen years old. Because of her extreme responsibility and compassion for those around her, she is a great role model for Bean, her little sister. Other than being a role model, Liz's main purpose is to serve as the maternal figure for Bean since their birth mother leaves for weeks at a time, and is not around to support them. Liz shows her role by always taking care of Bean when their mom decides to leave. To begin, Liz achieved her maternal role to Bean, by getting a job of her own, "Liz had been doing some babysitting, but after Mom had been gone a week, she decided to take on extra work, and I got a job delivering Grit, a newspaper with useful stories..." (Walls 15). Liz knows that if she is not independent and got a job then there was no way that her and Bean could survive without their mother. Also it was her idea to leave for Byler so that the bandersnatchers, which is the girls word for the police, would not be able to take them away to Child Protective Services. Liz always knew what to do in these kind of situations, as we are told by Bean, which makes Liz very dependable. Also, Liz is remarkably intelligent, which we know because she is always complimented by teachers, parents and other adults about how outstanding she is. But not only is Liz considered to be smart in school, or "book smart", she also knows how to deal with the...
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...children greatly. Baby Suggs and Sethe connected through Motherhood to develop a close bond. They shared the love for their children a bond that all mothers can relate with. Sethe has four children that she loves very much but she could not deal with her past of sweet home. Sethe could not bare for that to happen to her children so she had to save them from the schoolteacher and slavery by trying to kill them. She kills one child whom is referred to as beloved for what is written on her tomb stone, but fails to kill howard buglar, and Denver. Sethe motherly natural instincts caused her to try to save her children from a place like sweet home by any means necessary including death. Sethe being the loving mother she is tries to save her children because she wants a better life and for her children to not suffer like she did. Baby suggs is not only a mother to her specific children but also serves as a mother to slave runaways showing her motherly role in the novel. Baby suggs was "followed by every black man, woman and child who could make it through, took her great heart to the clearing" (Morrison 102). Baby suggs would care for the runaways and preach in her own spiritual way for the runaways, Morrison uses suggs to compare and contrast the mothering style of the two woman by comparing old and new motherhood. Baby suggs certainly does not agree with Sethe mothering style but is still caring and understanding of her motherhood but still cant accept what sethe did nor can she understand...
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...hour shift in which a simple set of expectations are laid out and either fulfilled (and compensated for) or unfulfilled. But motherhood cannot be transformed into an exchangeable commodity; a mother cannot simultaneously remain home and focus solely on the welfare of her child while selling her labor or exchanging goods. Taking care of a child is socially necessary and has immense use value, but it cannot be monetized and is therefore deliberately excluded from the system. Capitalism has turned child rearing into a lifetime of subsistence, in which the mother sacrifices the entirety of her labor power neither for compensation, commodity nor social agency. Therefore, a mother must, as witnessed throughout history, become dependent on a man for comprehensive support. Through this devalorization of women’s reproductive labor, gender inequality has been further intensified; not only are women unable to exercise autonomy, but once they are contracted into marriage, they have no footing within the relationship. Women are devalued to the point of nonexistence within the...
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...INTRODUCTION Every minute, another woman dies in childbirth. Every minute the loss of a mother shatters a family and threatens the well being of surviving children. For every woman who dies, 20 or more experience serious complications. These range from chronic infections to disabling injuries (Such as Obstetric fistula). Maternal death and disability rates mirror the huge discrepancies that exist between the haves and the have-nots both within and between countries. Safe Motherhood begins before conception with proper nutrition and a healthy life style and continues with appropriate prenatal care, the prevention of complications when possible, and the early and effective treatment of complications. The ideal result is a pregnancy at term, without unnecessary interventions, the delivery of a healthy infant, and a healthy post partum period in a positive environment that supports the physical and emotional needs of the woman, infant and family. Working for the survival of mothers is a human rights imperative. It also has enormous socio-economic ramifications-and is a crucial international priority. Both the international conference on Population and Development and Millennium Development Goals call for a 75 percent reduction in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015. This three prolonged strategy is key to the accomplishment of the goal: -All women have access to contraception to avoid unintended pregnancies. -All pregnant women have access to skilled care at the...
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...Term Paper The novel ‘joys of motherhood’ has brought different questions to light, with its clever plot of flash back on flash back and the clear illustration of themes and morals in the novel. The novel is said to be the best of the author, Buchi Emecheta’s collection. Nnu ego, the main character of the novel shows us the unfamiliar side where the relationship of females to motherhood, and how our cultural norms provide basics for judgement by humans. The novel rejects the feminist codes normally associated with motherhood. In the world we live in, we come across different societal cultures and norms, in this very essay we discuss the negative aspects of women adhering to societal norms and how women all round the world are likely to end up like Nnu Ego. Nigeria is a larger country with different cultures where some believe the first born child must be a girl, while others also believe in sending off their female children as soon as their ready for marriage. Such actives have been responsible for many societal problems faced in Nigeria. The novel by Buchi Emecheta shows us the violence that our culture causes makes people to develop some kind of violence against people who do not follow cultural norms, a good example was when it was time for Agunwa to be buried, Nwokocha Agbadis eldest wife who is said to have died due to the unpleasant scene of her husband and Ona. It’s a culture in their land that the personal slaves of Agunwa be buried with her as she will need them...
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...endured compromised their identity and limited them to a world of domesticity. Kate Chopin defines motherhood in The Awakening as “responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her” (Chopin 48). Therefore, white women depended on the black Mammy who “was, in short, surrogate mistress and mother” (White 49). In addition, White also argues that white children were “attached to female servants” (49). Furthermore, black women were responsible for the livelihoods of white children while the institution of slavery expected black mothers to neglect black children. Black “motherhood in its most denied form, the mother enslaved, reduced to a mare” (Demetrakopoulos 52). For white women, motherhood was a social responsibility that had become an unwelcomed burden. This burden had determined their fate to be subjected to the home and a lack of freedom....
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...In the article “A Child Helps Your Career, if You’re a Man”, it talks about how a woman who is a mother earns a less salary than a man who is a father and has to sustain a family. This happens, explained in the article, because the idea that a women become mothers start to give a less effort in their jobs, meaning they don’t work as hard as the men. The article starts by explaining how the ideology of intensive motherhood does not let a woman work as hard than before she was a mother. Ideology of intensive motherhood means that a woman has to be the one at home taking care of the children and house chores. Also, a woman being a mother and a wife at home takes up a lot of energy and time, which means that this should be the woman’s first priority. Therefore, a mother working the same job as a father is earning less because “…they’re more distractible when on the job”. This all means that a woman who is a mother can not have two priorities and that because she has children at home she can not give her full attention to her job. According to the article, this is one of the main...
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...Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, by Irene Vilar. This is a memoir in which Vilar discusses her past and how she was an “abortion addict”. When published, it was met with abundant criticism. She spoke about her numerous abortions 15 in total. Vilar, while a teenager in college, became trapped in an abusive relationship with a professor. This foul and dangerous relationship resulted in a loss of self-esteem and sacrifice which ultimately resulted in her suffering physical and emotional abuse. Irene Vilar, is a successful women; she is an editor, author, and literally agent in which she represents writers and their works. As previously mentioned, Vilar is successful but after reading her memoir, and seeing the oppression and suffering, you realize she is a victim. She underwent enormous turmoil and tough times. Her journey to success has not been easy. She has overcome many emotional obstacles to achieve greatness. Thus, this is a story of “hope”. It makes one’s own situation seem a lot more bearable and optimistic. Although there is ultimately hope, I believe this story is about the harm Vilar has experienced throughout her life. The harm she experiences is so abundant and persistent throughout her entire life. There is concentrated emphasis on these moments and events. I will discuss the harm the author went through by focusing on important events and situations that shaped the harm consistently endured by Vilar. I will begin by looking at her...
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...Essay: Portrayal of Mothers and Motherhood Motherhood is a big task for mothers to go through. When women become mothers, they go through a lot of changes such as women after become mothers become more responsible, physical changes, etc. Motherhood is a mechanical set of duty and feelings that starts from the pregnancy to the baby birth (Akujobi, 2011). Becoming mother is a great experience that is shaped by culture and social perspective. Mothers losses their freedom, independency as when they get attached to their baby. Mothers need to compromise on many things like for example sacrificing their sleep, their food, their body, their autonomy and many other things. Motherhood images differ from culture to culture, as they filter through our worlds. Mothers though have very huge responsibilities as to bring up their children, to make them learn the language and the culture where a child belongs to but they are portrayed as the criticized figure or nonexistent. Motherhood representations is everywhere, could be good or bad and it could be empowering or being slave. Motherhood has now become such controversial topic that in the twentieth century all the feminist are talking about being mothers, experiencing mother hood and the categories of motherhood. In America there are five categories of mothers (Leary, 2008). 1) Self-absorbed who prefers independency; feels that their children are burden on them and want to achieve their personal pleasures rather than keeping care of their...
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...The focus of my research is on women and mothers, discrimination and income inequality of gender in our social environment. Having read through some researchers’ articles and journals I can generalize that motherhood penalty still exists. Many sociologists have defined “Motherhood penalty” as when working mothers encounter lots of disadvantages in pay, and benefits when compared to childless women, and they are perceived incompetence at work places. This research project will further summarize motherhood penalty in the private and public sector at a company in France, how mothers are discriminated at getting a job when compared to fathers and women without children, comparison of the early and current year of motherhood penalty in the United...
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...Motherhood, criminal justice system involvement and life occurrences. In a study done by Fleisher and Krienert, O'Neal, Decker, Moule and Pyrooz (2014), stated that 63% of female gang members that were surveyed left the gang due to pregnancy. Yet, these facts are controversial, to another study that found no such factor of motherhood to play a role (O'Neal, Decker, Moule, Pyrooz, 2014). Being part of the criminal justice system, can be a turning factor for female gang members. Being incarcerated can result in a more realistic approach in the life of a gag member (O'Neal, Decker, Moule, Pyrooz,...
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...Beloved, a story of a girl and her deceased child has a recurring theme of slavery and motherhood. Sethe first faced slavery and motherhood when she has children while at Sweet Home. Before Sethe left Sweet Home Schoolteachers nephews violated her and took her breast milk. The greatest hardship she faces is her choice to kill her daughter Beloved. Throughout the novel Toni Morrison displays the many adversities a mother would encounter while raising children in slavery. Sethe being forced to birth her children into slavery is one adversity she faced. Although she may or may not have had a choice of having children birthing them into slavery knowing what they might one day go through would have been a very challenging decision. Shortly before...
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...When researching literature that included a qualitative research study, I came across an article that explained one in great detail; this article is titled, “Female Athletic Training Students’ Perceptions of Motherhood and Retention in Athletic Training”, written by Stephanie Mazerolle and Kerri Gavin. When beginning to read the article about this study, I would have to say that many of the key elements are included and easily identified. The reason for this study is to investigate and compare the different perspectives of current female athletic trainers who are mothers to those who are preparing to begin their career as an athletic trainer. Motherhood could have a great effect on the careers these women chose to pursue; if their profession does not allow for the proper work and life balance, or work setting, these women may be forced to leave their profession....
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...Redefining Motherhood In our modern-day society, it is much more common to see women in the workplace than it was as recent as the last century. Women have begun to defy the traditional gender roles that have been imposed on them throughout human history. However, this journey has not been easy for women, women have had to go through plenty of obstacles in trying to establish themselves in a male dominated world. One of our most recent and biggest issues within the Latina/o community is accompanied hand in hand with immigration - transnational motherhood. Latina domestic work is and has been highly in demand for at least the past three decades and with this demand the exploitation of Latina women has been common, the struggle with gender...
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...Dante Talavera Denys Thompson English 11 22 May 201 English Final 1. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote: “God gave her into my keeping, “repeated Hester Prynne, raising her voice almost to a sudden impulse, she turned to the young clergyman, Mr. Dimmesdale, at whom, up to this moment, she had seemed hardly so much as once to direct her eyes The them I choose for this quote is motherhood and love. It really connects to the quote because Hester Prynne is raising her voice saying that God gave her into her keeping and it shows the love she has to her child and also to God. It shows a lot of motherhood as well, when we see that Hester Prynne takes care of her child very good and plays with her, bust of all she is not ashamed of her daughter and that she did adultery with Mr. Dimmesdale. Also the quote really says how she loyal she is to her daughter and that she is very special to her because God gave her child and that she wouldn’t gave her up for anything. I also think or imagine that when you are going to have...
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