At midlife, women who mother are now more independent and entering into new relationships with their adult children. These postmaternal figures are becoming an important focus in movies, novels, television, cartoons, and the media.
Students have a choice between writing autobiographically or critically.
Participation is not limited to parents of adult children. Women in the Modern Movement Diane Radycki Women artists in the modern period achieved more recognition than ever before in art history. Students study, in four discrete sections, the issues, the imagery, the practitioners, and the audiences of modernism from the perspective of gender. Through reading these authors, students not only learn to recognize the challenges faced by intellectual women but also catch glimpses of new and better worlds of gender and family relations, where women's experiences play a distinctive role. By considering twelfth-century perspectives on love and marriage, as well as the perceived rights, privileges, and expectations of these three remarkable women, students gain a richer comprehension of the values and realities of medieval society.