the problematics of motherhood in twentieth century women's fiction

TECHNOLOGIC& MOTEERBOOD
It was part of women's long revolution. When we
were breaklng all the old hierarchies Finally
there was that one thlng we had to give up too,
the only power we ever had, In return for no more
power for anyone. The original production. the
power to glve blrth Cause as long as we were
biologically enchained, we'd never be equal. And
males never would be humanized to be lovlng and
tender So we all became mothers Every chlld
has three To break the nuclear bondlng (WET 98)
4.1.0. From the prevlous chapter, it 1s dlscernable that
advocates of femlnlst motherhood call for the destrucrlon of
the soclal/cultural construct of motherhood - they do not
want women to rellnqulsh mothering, but deslre to convert ~t
to a more pleasurable experience by destroying lmposltlons
:aid on motherhood by the lnstltutlon.
Another group of
fe~nlnlsts move a step further, urglng a shlft from
alologlcal to technologlcal motherhood wlth a promlse that
:i would loosen men's control over women's bodles Vlewlng
reproduction as the root cause of women's oppression,
supporters of technologlcal motherhood assert that women are
bound by blologrcal roles desplte the educational, legal and
polltlcal equallty they had achieved.
Of all differences
between men and women, the most immutable appears to be
Women's reproductlve capacities; lt is this mammalian
responsiblllty that condemns women to a shackled existence.