Meaning of antimother | Babel Free

Definitions

A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

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Examples

“The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.”

“These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them...”

“As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.”

“As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary.”

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