Understanding Mother Worship and the Feminist Resistance to the Ethos of Motherhood

Abstract

Motherhood is a complex topic to take up for research. A simple yet a very complicated phenomenon in any society. In India motherhood assumes altogether a different tone in the sense that even though India worships every forms of being a woman (and especially the way every aspect of motherhood is celebrated and worshipped), it goes quite contrary to the maternal health statistics, sex ratio statistics and gender induced violence statistics. And how this inequality has emerged in a strong corporate sector which is a night mare of women. In the present times motherhood and bareness are two complicated realities; it comes with a lot of conditions of purity and gender choice and cultural baggage of bareness and inauspiciousness. Despite all the debate surrounding inequalities, violence and gender induced discrimination against women; it cannot be blatantly denied that women have not made a mark for themselves.