• DOI:10.4324/9780429475481-42
Corpus ID: 142743176

Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood

@inproceedings{Welldon1988MotherMW,
  title={Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood},
  author={E. Welldon},
  year={1988}
}

E. Welldon

Published 1988

Psychology

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Welldon explores why the quality of their bodies is fundamental to women's psychology; how this may lead to self-mutilation; and how such perverse behavior may also be aimed at objects which women see as their own creations, specifically, their babies. The potential causes and consequences of these conditions, including maternal and paternal incest and its frequent aftermath, prostitution, are also discussed.