Antimother
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antimother is a noun meaning A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
Meaning
A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
Example Sentences
As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary.
The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.
As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.
These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them.
Word Forms
- antimothers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include motherist, antimisogynist, antimodel, anti-misogynist, antimale, anti-antifeminist.
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