antimother

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ mother

Noun

antimother (plural antimothers)

1. A mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers.
   • 1996, Eileen L. McDonagh, Breaking the abortion deadlock: from choice to consent:

     The consent-to-pregnancy foundation runs the final risk of portraying women as antimothers, or monsters who kill their children.

   • 2000, Heléna Ragoné, France Winddance Twine, Ideologies and technologies of motherhood: race, class, sexuality, nationalism:

     These representations of antimothers, monster mothers, "other" mothers can be understood as one facet of a cultural drive to monitor mothers, regulate them...

   • 2003, Frances H. Early, Kathleen Kennedy, Athena's daughters: television's new women warriors:

     As an extremely pregnant Xena declared at Corinth, "This baby is nothing compared to my empire!" Evil Xena was thus an antimother.

   • 2004, Sidney I. Dobrin, Kenneth B. Kidd, Wild things: children's culture and ecocriticism:

     As an antimother, she embodies everything foresworn by Victorian domestic ideology and clearly spells danger to the unwary.

Translations

a mother whose behaviour is the opposite of that socially expected of mothers

• Portuguese: antimãe