Sri cautions the reader not to confuse the royal dignity of the
Mother of God with views of queenship based on abstract metaphysics or Western political monarchies.
Queen Mother: A Biblical Theology of Mary's Queenship
Peter's Square in Rome, His Holiness Pope John Paul II proclaimed Gianna Beretta Molla,
Mother of a Family, "Blessed." From that moment onward until today, the number of friends of my mother in Canada has grown to be so many.
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
In her Washington Post Magazine story about mothers and work, Tracy Thompson tells the story of Ana Kinney, a hairdresser, the
mother of two young children, and a reluctant primary breadwinner since her husband's business venture had folded.
The Mommy Wars
Perhaps the
Mother of the Year Award should indeed o to Dolores Claiborne.
Movies and motherhood
Only the most misguided theologian would suggest that honouring the
mother of Our Lord somehow displeases Him.
Hymns to our Blessed Mother not welcome?
Only extended time away from family and the workplace would enable "the burdened
mother of today [to] achieve a real recovery." [8]
"FOR MOTHERS ONLY": MOTHERS' CONVALESCENT HOMES AND MODERNIZING MATERNAL IDEOLOGY IN 1950S WEST GERMANY
("I shuddered to think of being the
mother of children that should be owned by my old tyrant" [385-86].) When she learns that he is building her a cottage in which to consummate their liaison, she dematerializes, figuratively speaking, in order to waft between the rock and the hard place and, incredibly, locates a mediating space among her grandmother's impossible moral code, the loss of her chosen first love, Mrs.
Between the rock and the hard place: mediating spaces in Harriet Jacob's 'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.'
She is the
mother of the welfare state, the progenitor of the nanny state and its resentful children.
The character issue
Rolheiser's credal statement, "One Lord, One baptism, and One God who is Father and
Mother of all."
Who's our mother: God or Mary?
One physician noted that the
mother of one patient fired thirteen wet nurses in fourteen days.
"MERCENARY HIRELINGS" OR "A GREAT BLESSING"?: DOCTORS' AND MOTHERS' CONFLICTED PERCEPTIONS OF WET NURSES AND THE RAMIFICATIONS FOR INFANT FEEDING IN CHICAGO, 1871-1961
After accusing her
mother of laughing at God, she says:
Reactions of a "highly-strung girl": psychology and dramatic representation in Angelina W. Grimke's 'Rachel.' (Women's Culture Issue)
Fortunately however, the love of the natural
mother of Jesus is available to all without exception.
The uniqueness of Mary
In our analysis, attention is primarily directed to the survival prospects of the child in four different family contexts; the
mother of the child has died, the father has died, the surviving parent has remarried and the child lives in a complete family.
Surviving the loss of the parent in a nineteenth-century Dutch provincial town
It is a strange thing: feminists want to nail a female god to the cross, but the
Mother of God they reject.
Who is the woman in your life?
For tho' it be such a favour to be the
Mother of many, yet there are Greater favours than this to set our Hearts upon; and it may be you in your Espousals to Christ have much more to satisfie your Soul in; or at least thither let me direct you."(83) For women who could not fulfill their highest earthly duty, and receive the honor due them as good mothers, only the hope of an eternal reward could give solace.
The cultural significance of breastfeeding and infant care in early modern England and America