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In all the reading that we made, I believe the most prominent topic was probably the motherhood. This particular concept of maternity was always in flux and changing. At some moment of time and some places of the world the concept of motherhood did not exist. On the other hand, and another part of the world motherhood was used as a tool to grow future labor force. Some other times motherhood was used just to stop the growth of women.

In Morgan’s work reader can clearly see that the concept of motherhood didn’t really take place in some tribes all over the world. Child birth was considered as something monstrous. As travelers stated they were shocked that these savage women gave birth with ease and no pain at all. In addition, the birth was in front of everyone and travelers were shocked at their absence of shame and dignity. So, these tribal women did not really care for their children and the concept of motherhood was nonexistent for them. On the contrary, in Davis’s work we can recognize that the concept of motherhood was very strong between women. Especially motherhood was solid in slave communities. Motherhood was used as a tool to grow a new labor force. Slave women were always afraid that some master would be able to take away a child to sell him or her to other master. However, the concept of mother hood quickly changed in nineteen century. . The capitalism era began with a bad sign for women because jobs were occupied with men in factories. Women could not find any jobs so they had to stay home. Degradation of women had a huge impact in women’s rights because even nowadays women have to stay home and take care of children and a husband.

The concept of motherhood had gone through a long process of struggle and misrepresentation. It took different forms and meanings. Some considered it unnatural and others thought it was a limitation.