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The Reproduction Of Fathering Analysis

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One of the ways a misogynistic culture suppresses the woman is to question her role as wife and mother. Literature, in particular, feeds this culture in regards to how an author portrays the mother in the context of their relationship with their children. In particular, the relationship between the mother and daughter. In The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow explains the difference between “mothering” and “fathering” from the viewpoint of a feminist in 1978. She states while the female adult would be “mothering” a child, a mother would never be accused of “fathering” a child because it is not a nurturing role. A father is capable of “mothering a child, yet the patriarchal society rules that fathering is left for the man in a child’s

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