Sublime

For our daughters, when the prosperity of industrialized countries allowed for the option of divorces in the ‘60’s and 70’s, women became liberated from marriage and motherhood as the sole definition of feminine purpose. Fortunately, feminism pro-actively filled women’s “purpose void” with visions of careers, liberation and equality. A woman’s new

Women have been circling formally and informally probably forever. Around fires, in covens, red tents, church basements, and kitchens,

We can choose to take on these integrative ways of living in relationship with responsibility, with a mutuality of reciprocal influence, and in ways that redistribute and share our gifts—all driven by the innate force of love.

We both still think of ourselves as feminists, but it’s a new brand of feminism we adhere to. It is a feminism that finally allows us to build our own work-life model, one that permits us to be who we really want to be.

One might reasonably expect that new modes of being, new individual identities, and new conceptions of selfhood would abound. And such does seem to be the case.

and shifting character of identity. 15. Erikson’s paper, “Womanhood and the Inner Space,” published in 1968, seems to suggest that the crux of a woman’s identity is the partner she chooses (i.e., who she admits to the “inner space”). In this paper, much maligned by feminists, Erikson also recognizes that options at the time were limited for women a

Rather than viewing care work as characteristic of the noun “motherhood,” I now see it as the action of mothering, which includes anyone who is engaged in “the practice of creating, nurturing, affirming and supporting life.”