Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In some cultures, including Botswana [70] and Nigeria, [63] women can select a woman with whom she allows her husband to sleep with in hopes of conceiving a child. [63] Women who are desperate for children may compromise with her husband to select a woman and accept duties of taking care of the children to feel accepted and useful in society. [70]
Some called her Virginia (1913; about a southern lady whose husband abandons her when he achieves success), Life and Gabriella (1916; about a woman abandoned by a weak-willed husband, but who becomes a self-sufficient, single mother who remarries well), and Barren Ground (1925); discussed below, her "women's trilogy". Her later works have ...
Sarah is introduced in the Bible with only her name and that she is "barren" and without child. She had borne no children though God had promised them a child. Sarah is the first of barren women introduced, and the theme of infertility remains present throughout the matriarch narratives (Genesis 11:30, 25:21; 30:1–2). [50]
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.
Goodwife is a term used to designate women of high social status, typically civilian wives. [3] However, in England, these were not people of the gentry. [4] Goodwives were typically involved in civilian duties but did not necessarily join in church activities. [5] The term has also had very specific meanings for certain groups.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short run and suggests explanations as to why this has occurred. [1] The book uses data documenting declining violence across time and geography. This ...
In this novel, Emecheta reveals and celebrates the pleasures derived from fulfilling responsibilities related to family matters in child-bearing, mothering, and nurturing activities among women. However, the author additionally highlights how the "joys of motherhood" also include anxiety, obligation, and pain.
"We still have these almost medieval notions about women at times, with our control over them and their bodies." One way to work against these notions, for Sparks and women like her, is to use the same fantastical elements that subjugated the women collected by the Brothers Grimm, to empower the fictional women on her pages.