antimother

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noun

A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounantimother (plural antimothers)

plural antimothers

  1. A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.

    As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary.

    2004, Sidney I. Dobrin, Kenneth B. Kidd, Wild things: children's culture and ecocriticism
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    The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.

    1996, Eileen L. McDonagh, Breaking the abortion deadlock: from choice to consent

    These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them...

    2000, Heléna Ragoné, France Winddance Twine, Ideologies and technologies of motherhood: race, class, sexuality, nationalism

    As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.

    2003, Frances H. Early, Kathleen Kennedy, Athena's daughters: television's new women warriors

Origin

Translations

Portuguese antimãe
  • antimãea mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers
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