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The reference to "the motherliness of woman" indicates how women continued to express their authority in the moralistic language of maternal feminism that had characterized nineteenth-century campaigns for suffrage and temperance, especially when addressing their remarks to other women.
Caught in the crossfire: women's internationalism and the YWCA child labor campaign in Shanghai, 1921-1925
Women's moral vision, compassion, and capacity to nurture came increasingly to be linked to motherliness.
Who needs teacher education? gender, technology, and the work of home schooling
They exploited their perceived religiosity, motherliness, physical weakness, and political innocence for subversive purposes.
Attacking the Washington "femmocracy": antifeminism in the cold war campaign against "Communists in government"
None of these essayists has given up on her broader ideas of motherliness and each of them has had to decide how to redirect her caretaking impulses toward a larger world, or more subtle situations than the simple mother-and-child.
Demolishing a stereotype: a new collection explores both the charms and irritations of childlessness
Miss JB's features and actions suggest girlishness rather than motherliness.
Crawfords on the couch: a psychoanalytical exploration of the effects of the "bad school" on Henry and Mary Crawford
The later tradition used Mary, symbol of feminine obedience and motherliness, to push Mary Magdalene, who promotes friendship and sisterhood over the domesticated sexuality of mother, to the background.
Feminist Mariologies: heteronomy/ subordination and the scandal of Christology
The imaginary companion thus plays an important part in Nelly's psychological development: in a playful, performative way, she internalizes her mother's moral principles and judgements, thus gradually constituting her own superego while her rebellious instincts are channeled into a kind of hyperbolic, aggressive motherliness.
Literary interiors, cherished things, and feminine subjectivity in the Gilded Age
Such a hunch is confirmed when we remember that Tantric goddesses, Kali foremost among them, often appear in mystical traditions dominated by the emotional-devotional states of the infant or child, the oft-stated goal of mystically merging with the mother, and a bewildering symbolic complex of motherliness, sexuality, grace, and violence.
Heroic heretical heterosexuality
In fit of comfy motherliness I decided to do a Nigella on my day off and get baking with the small boy.
'Don't think I'm cut out to be a Nigella'
indeed comprises a beautiful, orphaned heroine whose (white, English, aristocratic, colorblind) mother died in childbirth; a hateful, intrusive aunt; self-sacrificing fugitive slaves; chivalrous white heroes who embody all the virtues of True Men (as well as the motherliness of True Women
Reversing stereotypes
women who in their motherliness anthropomorphize the motherland.
Julio Dinis and history revisited: what good is a dead mother?
If the motherliness of woman is not so incensed by this war that it causes a mass-rising against the injustices of woman's position,' she argued, `then I don't know from what source we may expect salvation.
The origins of women's peace campaigning: Helen Rappaport charts the early efforts of campaigning women to outlaw war. (Cross Current)

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