The Thinking Housewife: The Pregnant Pagan

Just yesterday afternoon at Target I saw a cover with a pregnant Mariah Carey -- of course she was naked, with her arms covering strategic parts... does this really reflect an exaltation of motherhood? More like a focus on the obvious physical changes in a woman's body, as if that were sufficient to qualify a woman as a good mother. And there is the reduction of feminine beauty to the physical -- as if pregnant women must proclaim that their bodies are beautiful too, even if at times they do not feel beautiful because of the increase in weight.