Category: Motherhood

This day in age, many women are choosing to not have children, or are influenced by factors that should have any weight towards their decision to start a family. With the price of living increasing by year, women cannot afford to take time off work for maternity leave, being that many employers do not support…

Paid maternity leave is a fairly new topic, specifically within the United States. Less than sixty years ago, women were still largely considered as inferior to men in the workplace and were denied opportunities and jobs based off that fact. A considerable portion of women still took the stereotypical role of the homemaker, while the…

This statement regarding the regress of maternal instincts that are perceived as normal can be discussed in reference to Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale (1988) and Sarah Kanes Phaedras Love (1996). Both postmodern plays were written after the 1950s, and with the use of reference to Greek mythology, perpetuate social and gender issues…

In his First Manifesto of Surrealism, Andre Breton describes Surrealism as a pure psychic automatism through which it is intended to express&the true functioning of thought. Automatism is a technique experimented with by the Surrealists that stems from Freuds work. The artist will suppress conscious control of the process of making the art, allowing the…

Nepalese culture is one that highly values family, tradition, and custom. Nepalese beliefs about pregnancy, childbearing, and general medicine are strongly influenced by religious beliefs and cultural practices. It is important to understand these influences when providing medical care so that the individuals beliefs are respected while also promoting the health and safety of mother…