Who is the Mother? The process of naming and defining the Mother is so unconventional, that we can call every newborn girl "a future mother". By Tamta Tatarashvili
How to talk about Motherhood? Issues like motherhood, practice of mothering and labor it involves are naturalized as ordinary processes of women's lives, which should not be talked about. By Tamta Tatarashvili
Where does the Mother belong? In this article I am describing the process of social interaction: on the one hand, how cultural expectations define indivudual fates, and on the other, how individuals reproduce frameworks based on those expectations. Full article is available only in Georgian. By Tamta Tatarashvili
Who is a Feminist Mother? When we become mothers ourselves, only than we start to understand our mothers and possibly, rethink attitudes towards her. As a mother of daughter, only after her birth I started realizing that a feminist consciousness will not save us from becoming an allie to the Patriarchy. By Tamta Tatarashvili
Beyond the Motherhood Mask Feminist criticism pushed motherhood discourse beyond the "natural" framework and indicated, that while naturalizing mothering process and labelling mother's labour as 'instinct', we trivialize it and create invincible barriers for those women, who cannot fulfill motherhood obligations so easily. By Tamta Tatarashvili
Motherhood as a Political Act Maybe, intitutionalized image of mother is a tool to maintain control over women? Maybe, motherhood is not the instinct of every woman? And on the other hand, maybe fact and process of motherhood is more empowering for women than it is considered by the patriarchal rights and obligations? By Tamta Tatarashvili