the problematics of motherhood in twentieth century women's fiction

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fulfilling experience, with the resentment cut out and the
problem of establishrng an effective balance between self-
fulfilment and family obligations resolved.
6.9.0. Th~s dissertation opens up subjects related to
motherhood that could lend themselves for further study
The relationship between wrltlng and motherhood can be
explored, employing the creativity metaphor, grounded in
mother-daughter / artist-creation parallels
Further,
maternal discourse, whlch had been stifled tlll recently by
both androcentrlc writlng (in whlch the mother 1s negated)
and gynocentrlc wrlting (where the story 1s usually told
from the daughter's perspectlvel , now comes to the fore as
mothers begln to speak / write, transmuting then sllence
Into anger, no longer remalnlng the sllent m(other), thus
dlscredltlng the notlon that "mothers don't wrlte, they are
wrltten"
Comparison of gynocentrlc texts wrltten from a
materzal view polnt and those wrltten from a dauahter's
perspective, would provlde scope for an lnterestlng study
6.9.1. Vlewlng motherhood as a soc~ally constructed
lnstltutlon, whlch In ~ t s present form, undermines the
mother's mental health and produces chlldren who are
ambivalent towards their own mothers, lt is obsewed that
maternity and motherhood become springboards towards female
hysteria.
'Motherhood and Madness' could be another sublect