motherhood
Fipa Village Women Humiliate and Punish a Man
A young Fipa man was punished by the women of his village for the crime of verbally, and publicly, abusing his mother. The crimes he committed violated Fipa traditions, so the women disciplined him with harsh, traditional punishments of their own. The story was reported widely in the middle of last week in such African […]
Thai Women Cherish Motherhood [journal article review]
While most mothers cherish the joy of having children, women all too often also become disillusioned by motherhood, their feelings heightened by the sense that, as mothers, they have lost their own identities. Feelings of inadequacy, of being “just a mother,” are mentioned frequently in the research literature about motherhood—at least in the research carried […]