Date of Award
5-2-2018
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
First Advisor
Tiffany King
Second Advisor
Susan Talburt
Third Advisor
Susana Morris
Abstract
This thesis articulates motherhood as both a liberal and black humanist formation that conditions black women to mother and attempts to untether maternity from the black female body. By centering maternal ambivalence—the desire and distaste for motherhood—in selected works by black women, this thesis argues that black motherhood is an ambivalent site for some black women. Motherhood can be a site of joy and displeasure; sacrifice and refusal; life and death.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/12014671
Recommended Citation
Merritt, Candice J., "Our Sacrifice Shall Not Be Required: Examining Maternal Ambivalence and Refusal in Black Motherhood." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/12014671