Le Deuxième Sexe - La Mère
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- Created on: 12-04-21 16:08
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- Le Deuxième sexe - La Mère
- Motherhood and womanhood
- Motherhood and womanhood presented by society as women's psychological destiny
- Even if we are designed for womanhood more than other animals, if doesn't mean you have to be a mother
- Abortion
- Begins discussion with assessment of abortion
- Birth control and abortion allow women to control maternity
- Practise was illegal in France at the time
- Flagrant hypocrisy in illegalising abortion - goes on more in very dangerous conditions
- Pregnancy, motherhood and the body
- Maternity is a condition woman experiences differently according to whether they wished for a child or according to whether they have a willing partner
- Foetus is both part of a mother’s body and a parasite exploiting it – second generation feminists took issue with this
- Pregnancy for B turns female into natural object, becoming en soi, while society considers you justified since you’re pregnant
- Mother is alienated in own body and social dignity, has pacifying illusion to feel herself being in herself an entire value
- Childbirth is the staging of a conflict between interests of mother and needs of species
- Mother-child bonds
- Once baby has arrived, mother can take pleasure in feeling generous and necessary towards them
- Geneoristy feeds maternity myth that makes mothers exemplary of devotion
- Mothers deal better with sons than daughters because of the presitge she concedes to the male and patriarchy
- Mother might try to dominatte son to comensate for husband's domination of her
- Daughter more given over to mother - relationship often difficult
- Mother sees own double in her daughter - prejects onto her daughter her ambiguous feelings about her status as a woman
- When daughter escapes from doubting by affirming individuality, mother feels betrayed
- Mother can be jealous of daughter's relationship with father, rmay resent her for being able to enjoy herself
- Once baby has arrived, mother can take pleasure in feeling generous and necessary towards them
- Motherhood and choice
- Concepts that motherhood makes women happy and that children are happy with their mother are proven false
- Women should freely choose their motherhood - parents otherwise can be great dangers to their children
- Unfair to close off all careers to women in favour of motherhood - there is no vhoice otherwise
- Children need a mother who has found thier own satisfaction in life
- Children need to spend time eith other children and neutral adults
- Wives have 3 things demanded of them - to be desirable to their husband, to run a perfect home and to be agood mother
- These are contradictory- leading to tension and stress, role is an impossible burden
- Motherhood and womanhood
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