The Quest for Motherhood: When Fertilization Fails

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Based on a John Sayles 2003 movie, Casa de Los Babys, about adoption in South America, the author uses the characters portrayed and references to the haunting music lyrics, to focus on the grief over the specter of the end of these 6 women's psychological and biological attempts to conceive their own offspring. Scenes of the group's long, frustrating wait beside the orphanage to claim finally their adoptees are examined as reflecting the doubts, the self-recriminations, the hopes and fears in approaching the next phase of adoptive motherhood. The discussion develops the theme of time and timing with Chodorow's ideas about those who wait too long for children, and Kristeva's sense of the rhythms of “women time.”View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2010.516231