Politics of Maternity Discourses

Abstract

newline Feminist literary theory has encouraged the innovative reading of newlineliterary texts The affirmative potential of feminist ideology helps to newlinedevelop alternative discourses Feminist writers have been constantly newlineusing the conceptual framework of the feminist theory to generate and newlinedevelop these discourses A large volume of feminist writings centred on newlinefemale body and womans experience of mothering celebrates the newlineuniqueness of female body and its maternal functions Drawing from the newlinefeminist insights on the female body the maternal body we can derive newlinethe possibility for the production of a new feminist theoretical domain of newlinematernity discourses