the St Gilda legend about the 6th C saint who revived Tryphine, who had been beheaded by her husband (Comorre or Cunmar) when he learned she was pregnant. The historical figure Gilles de Rais (1404-40). This psychopath sexually abused and murdered more than 140 children. He is also ...
she argues, forced-birthers will be left to make clear the next part of their argument: That pregnant people (mostly women) are being forced into labour. As part of that argument, she
if not because she’s a spy, then definitely because she might ‘get herself’ pregnant. That would trap him into marriage. (Alice Munro explores the cultural forces around this in “Thanks for the Ride“. The mother of this story courts the eligible bachelor in the same way the mother o...
she’s going to get married. (And she’s about to marry a doctor — financial stability for life.) Her path is set now. She’ll have his babies. He assumes so, too. She’s not going to have the special life she dreamed of....
who is giving Anthony her backstory while also giving the reader her backstory. Anthony is clearly the sort of man who likes young women to confide in him. For her part, Emma is surprisingly mature and reflective given how relatively little time has passed since she became pregnant with her ...
was thrown into the utmost consternation by the sudden and mysterious introduction of a stranger within its walls. The circumstance at this moment was particularly remarkable; for the period was so fearful and pregnant with events of danger, the fort being assailed on every side by a powerful ...
This is where you find adolescents, menstruating women (SeeMenstruation In Fiction), pregnant women, women in general, the elderly. We have fewer of these ‘crisis heterotopies’ in modern society. It’s considered not-nice to lock people away when we don’t want to deal with them. ...
have phallic associations (and doesn’t everything?). According to one old superstition, if a single woman stepped over a broom lying on the floor, she would become pregnant out of wedlock. The degree to which people imagine stuffing things inside women to control us will forever baffle me....
Towards the end, it is revealed in a threat from Fay that, when they were very young, Dyson and Fay became pregnant. Without Don and Marjorie ever knowing, Dyson was instrumental in arranging the abortion. Like the mercy described by Mathew Schmalz at The Conversation, pregnancy is also ‘...
“Thank You for Having Me“ DOROTHY PARKER Big Blonde— a feminist New York story in a non-feminist era and grandmother of Gillian Flynn’s Cool Girl archetype. “I Live On Your Visits“ RAY BRADBURY All Summer In A Day— On Venus, one girl is the victim of bullying and misses a onc...