Yuanji Zhao Week8 A03

Yuanji Zhao
Week 8
A03
5/17



“To be or not to be" is an arguable topic about mothering in current society. For thousands of years, bringing life to earth is not only one of most beautiful things human can make, but a given destiny of women. In ancient society, giving birth was considering as the most valuable achievement of women. With time developing, although most of women can reflect their potential in many areas, they still kind of struggle with the natural feature of mothering. However, different from the ancient soical-engineering of motherhood, mothers taday are expected not only to take care of their kids' physical growth, but to pay attention to their mental development. As a result, women are facing more pressure from their family, in addition to stress comes from work or society. This kind of stress may bring more depression than the happiness of having a child. Therefore, I believe it is necessary to talk about why motherhood is regarded as the necessary nature of moderm women. In other words, it may be crucial today to liberate women from being struggled with motherhood. The first and most valuable discussing point is "how". Since women are labled with mothering for thousands of years, removing the lable must come from a result of significant change of the public thinking. In order to  accomplish this goal, both women and society needs to put in huge amount of effort. First of all, modern female needs to realized they have potential in many different fields more that just being a good mother. They need to stop their family, the society from labling them as only motherhood. They need to give different voices when people are saying motherhood is the most valuable things of women. Regularly holding conventions about liberating women from mothering is one of most useful way to spread the voice out. For the society, as same as the goveronment, they have the most effective tool to change the rigid stereotype of women, which is media. Starting to make related TV shows and documentaries about different potential modern women have to make the public change their old thinking about women. More specifically, stop emphysizing the character of only being mother for women in social media, however, give them more characters in different areas. In a word, the single stereotype of motherhood is no longer suit for most of modern women who have potentials to become expects on innumerous fields.

Reference

"Mothering Is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy"-Allyson Tintiango-Cubales-06/2019

"To Be orNot to Be: The Dilemmas of Mothering"-Sheila Rowbotham-03/1989-"https://www.jstor.org/stable/1395092?seq=1"