Güneş Saygılı'nın Gerçek Yaşamı by Erendiz Atasü

The women's interviews indicated that their birthing choices are reflective of tensions embedded in normative femininity conflicting ideas relating to purity, dignity, and the messiness of birth and contradictions about women's bodies as heteronormative sites of pleasure and sexuality on one hand and of asexual, selfless sources of maternal nurturance on the other. We interviewed 21 childless women and 22 new mothers to explore their perceptions of choice and birthing. However, they must make these choices within a complex culture of birthing discourse characterized by competing knowledges and claims regarding the 'ideal birth' as medicalized, natural, or woman centered. Women in North America have many childbirth options. Subsequently, research on motherhood is far-reaching and fractured.

Unlike in the past, there is no explicit imposed definition. Choices and circumstances have empowered women to change the concept of motherhood. Motherhood is an important component in the creation of the female identity and hence has become increasingly inexorable to advance the concept. Women always find themselves at a crossroads where it appears they have to choose family or professional life. Olsen’s short story reflects the present predicaments women continue to face across the globe, especially in the third world nations. The study has introduced new insights to expand the scholarship on the concept of motherhood through the discussion of motherhood as a source of life and power.

The analysis has enabled the interrogation of the numerous positions that Olsen gives her readers. Textual analysis facilitates an intimate engagement with the thoughts, arguments, and postulations present in Olsen’s authorship. The study utilizes the textual analysis method to enable close reading of Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing to unravel the prescriptions of motherhood as advocated for in culture. The present study aims to enlighten on the multifaceted nature of the concept and encourage more scholars to engage in the discussion of the text and extend to others for rich revelations concerning the concept of motherhood.

Minimal research exists on the postmodernist interpretation of Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing and others similar to it in regard to the concept of motherhood. Opposing views are recurrent even within the feminist discourse. The theme of motherhood remains unconcluded to date.

Güneş Saygılı'nın Gerçek Yaşamı by Erendiz Atasü