And Sarah Laughed: The Biological Clock Metaphor And Its Entailments.(Brief Article)

From: Women and Language | Date: March 22, 2000 | Copyright information

Nicole Marie Keating, Univ. of Pennsylvania

This paper concentrates on the central entailments of the biological clock metaphor, elaborating on the attitudes that are generated from its use in contemporary discourse. Although the entailments are numerous and varied, the material collected through interviews and examination of popular and scholarly literature suggests three essential ones. The biological clock metaphor (1) performs a regulatory function regarding women's childbearing ...

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