http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/crying-dangerous-kids-one-expert-says-222400379.html "Even Dr. Richard Ferber, whose sleep-training method is commonly called the Cry It Out Method, says that he never intended parents to completely ignore their babies' nighttime tears." Finally, the crying it out method is out. I never even thought of it with my own babies. But I am never going to forget the baby next door who cried every single night for the whole night. I tried to soothe him from the other side of the wall. His mother seemed nice during the day, and I did go to her and told her my experience with her baby, and nothing really changed... Their room was at the other end of the house, with three other rooms between her and the baby "he has to get used to it" said she.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/isnt-what-i-expected/201102/guilt-motherhood-and-the-pursuit-perfection

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motherhood by fe journal

fe dergi de annelik sayısı yaptı!

Fe Journal, the peer reviewed journal of the Center for Women's Studies (KASAUM), Ankara University, now has an issue on motherhood and technology. All the articles have abstracts in English and many of the articles are in fact in English.

Issue Editors: Ayça Kurtoğlu and Elif Ekin Akşit

The electronic and print versions of the articles can be found here

real people, real animals, real emotions...

It is strange that we start this english version of feministmothers with blade runner. I meant to write about In The Night Garden / BBC first. Which, I beleive is not so different. You know I saw the pinky ponk in the Blade RUnner movie. Ok, I'll turn back to this. later. I just want to note that motherhood has been the subject of nationalism etc., but also of science fiction. and as mothers, becoming worrying machines, producing future fantasies do grow to like science fiction more and more. Also, of course, there is Ursula K. LeGuin, and her thesis that motherhood is a part of a woman's sexuality, and/or vice versa maybe. WHich of course, totally distinguishes some science fiction from other nationalisms...



"Squirming about, Rachael managed to roll over at last onto her stomach, face buried in the white
lower sheet. "This is a clean, noble, virgin type of bed," she stated. "Only clean, noble girls who - "
She pondered. "Androids can't bear children," she said, then. "Is that a loss?"
He finished undressing her. Exposed her pale, cold loins.
"Is it a loss?" Rachael repeated. "I don't really know; I have no way to tell. How does it feel to
have a child? How does it feel to be born, for that matter? We're not born; we don't grow up;
instead of dying from illness or old age we wear out like ants. Ants again; that's what we are. Not
you; I mean me. Chitinous reflex-machines who aren't really alive." She twisted her head to one side,
said loudly, "I'm not alive! You're not going to bed with a woman. Don't be disappointed; okay?
Have you ever made love to an android before?"
"No," he said, taking off his shirt and tie.
"I understand - they tell me - it's convincing if you don't think too much about it. But if you think
too much, if you reflect on what you're doing - then you can't go on. For ahem physiological
reasons."
Bending, he kissed her bare shoulder.
"Thanks, Rick," she said wanly. "Remember, though: don't think about it, just do it. Don't pause
and be philosophical, because from a philosophical standpoint it's dreary. For us both."" (86-87 (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K. Dick)