神学家艾琳·S·莱恩颠覆了关于母亲身份的主流叙事，并鼓励女性写自己的故事。
有没有可能做一些比做母亲更有意义的事？
作为一名年轻的天主教女孩，艾琳·S·莱恩在美国中西部靠白面包和耶稣长大，她被赋予了两种选择，一种是母亲，另一种是上级母亲。她可以嫁给一个男人，为自己的孩子做母亲，或者可以说她可以嫁给上帝，为全世界的孩子做母亲。这两件事对其他人的生活都有好处。两个都不适合她的身材。
莱恩的故事与其他女性的故事交织在一起，包括单身和夫妻、继父母和养父母、不孕和矛盾的母亲以外的其他人，挑战了让母亲处于不可能的地位的社会脚本，让没有孩子的女性和非传统家庭感到羞愧，因为她们没有达到标准。你可能听说过这些。。。
Someone Other Than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman’s Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood
Theologian Erin S. Lane overturns dominant narratives about motherhood and inspires women to write their own stories.
Is it possible to do something more meaningful than mothering?
As a young Catholic girl who grew up in the American Midwest on white bread and Jesus, Erin S. Lane was given two options for a life well-lived: Mother or Mother Superior. She could marry a man and mother her own children, or she could marry God, so to speak, and mother the world’s children. Both were good outcomes for someone else’s life. Neither would fit the shape of hers.
Interweaving Lane’s story with those of other women—including singles and couples, stepparents and foster parents, the infertile and the ambivalent—Someone Other Than a Mother challenges the social scripts that put moms on an impossible pedestal and shame childless women and nontraditional families for not measuring up. You may have heard these…
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