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Beyond Motherhood: Recognizing the Right to Non-Motherhood in a Pronatalist World

Marissa Gorog November 10, 2024
The terms “mother nature,” “lady justice,” and “mother tongue” convey a certain gendered innateness about them. In other words, they are feminizations of natural and social concepts. These terms, among many others, are used to signify nurturing and naturally occurring phenomena, paralleling the way motherhood has been constructed and reciprocated as innate to womanhood.
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