The paper shows how Walker's celebration of one's female aspect through a community of women contrasts with Morrison's celebration of the independent female mind.
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An eight page paper analyzing the thematic importance of the theme of breastfeeding and motherhood in Toni Morrison s 1987 novel. The paper argues that the freedom to nurse one s children up to the normal age of weaning, and then use the maternal bond thus created to nurture one s children to adulthood, is denied to women under slavery, and this causes tremendous stress on mothers and children alike. Bibliography lists 6 sources, which follow paper. The paper asserts that the reason Klein was able to survive as a whole person while Morrison's Sethe was not is due to the strength of their self-concept during their formative years. Bibliography lists 6 sources.