Tag: mothers

• To see ourselves as others see us

  Is it possible to peek over the blanket under which my culture has tucked me? Is it really possible to experience the world the same as others not similarly wrapped? I had once thought it was; now I am not so sure. The pull of circumstance is just too strong, and we are how we […]

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  February 2, 2022

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  care-givers, cultural biases, culture, Gombe National Park, insight, Kasekela chimpanzee community, Maria Botero, mothers, Psyche.co, Sam Houston State University, social cognition, touch

• The Venus Figurine

  Pregnancy has always had a sacred place in mythology. From the Palaeolithic Venus figurines, to the various stories of deities born from virgins, pregnancy has been cloaked in mystery and draped in awe –the curious interregnum separating being from non-being. That special state when the woman is suddenly not alone in her body, and then, […]

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  January 17, 2018

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  African proverb, Angela Saini, crying babies, maternal instinct, motherhood, mothers, mythology, obstetrician, post-partum check, pregnancy, The Guardian newspaper, venus figurines

• Eternal Maternal?

  Some things are just not said, just not considered. They fall so far outside of our Weltanschauung they are inadmissible. And we take such comfort in their ubiquity that we no longer feel a need to discuss them. They are so self-evidently true, so axiomatic to our understanding of existence that they seem indispensable. Crucial… […]

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  October 25, 2017

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  altruism, Angela Saini, babies, community support, cultural assumptions, cultural norms, evolution, Guardian newspaper, instinct, love, maternal bonds, maternal instinct, maternal support, motherhood, mothers, musingsonwomenshealth.com, sacrosanct, survival benefits