Bio
Batya Weinbaum teaches writing, folklore and women’s literature online at University of Maryland Global Campus and American Public University System. She was a leader in establishment of Feminist Mother’s and Their Allies in National Women’s Studies Addiction, and has two feminist art installations involving fertility goddesses. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Motherhood in St. Pete’s, FL. She wrote a book including birthing with a Maya midwife on Isla Mujeres, MX.
Abstract
Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex advocated that the grounding of reproduction of the species in the body of women was oppressive, and something that technology would liberate women from once it evolved to take childbearing away from women’s wombs. But others such as Roxanne Dunbar in a classic essay, “Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution,” in Robin Morgan’s anthology Sisterhood is Powerful, argued that maternal consciousness was to be developed to undermine capitalist society. Here I explore the community of women based on rediscovering the power of motherhood in previous and other cultures, drawing from this collection as well as early writers and theorists such as The Matriarchists and Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, whose The Great Cosmic Mother offered a different historical framing of the power of motherhood hence facilitating envisioning pathways to regaining our power as women.
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