Modern Women

The Intimate Life of the Modern Woman

In this period, but a legacy evident earlier historical periods, the issue of privacy, the internal aspects of each individual biological aspect was totally taboo and subject to failure, embarrassment and shame of society generally, especially by their moral and spiritual representatives who considered obscene everything related to the privacy of individuals, particularly as relating to women whose bodies and everything which refers to them immediately was considered sinful, vulgar and especially prohibitive. Although currently in our societies, we can not consider a person defined exclusively by their physical characteristics, throughout history this has not been in the same way (a curious example of this would work "Orlando" by Virginia Wolf, who board these aspects in your life as default) and the biological questions allowance and settled about social roles because of it, which still survive today. However, this sexuality existed at this time and was largely a shift in the Renaissance, which produces a new cult of the body and rediscovery of a reality that was fighting a past and a present prohibitive in part also struggled to subdue sexuality and body to the place of darkness had already occupied in part by the effects of the great bubonic plague and which immediately relate to this relaxation of customs fruit of the Renaissance and humanism. Thus, the female body was seen as a temptation of lust, and yet, the female body of every woman in need of some attention and special care, which must also be taken into account in relation to the issue of sex (Clift, pp. 11).

Technology and Motherhood

Modern mothers have been confronted by a number of new choices, as well as ethical and moral dilemmas, raised by medical, reproductive, social, Internet, and workplace technologies. Reproductive developments have opened up the possibility of parenthood to infertile couples and other groups, such as single women not seeking a relationship, or gay couples. Medical developments have offered the ability to determine a child's health in the womb and have enabled premature babies and those born with severe birth defects to survive. Social and Internet developments have provided mothers with an expanded array of parenting advice, and their children with new independence and a host of potential dangers. Workplace technologies have allowed mothers greater flexibility and workday contact with their children (Fisher, pp. 56).

Medical and Reproductive Technologies

Assisted reproduction became a multibillion-dollar business by the late 20th century. The development of artificial insemination techniques and sperm banks allowed women to conceive a child outside of a sexual relationship. The development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) allowed women with previously untreatable infertility problems such as blocked fallopian tubes to conceive and bear children. It has also allowed women to bear children later in life than had been previously possible. During IVF, a harvested egg is fertilized in a laboratory and the resulting embryo is implanted in the mother's womb. The first so-called “test tube baby,” Louise Joy Brown, was born to Lesley and John Brown ...