Under Construction @ Keele 2016 Volume 1 Issue 1 | Page 27

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a reclaiming of her self and her body as existing outside of her maternal role.
Redekop argues that when “he beholds her body, the pilot briefly absolves her of
the role of watcher and keeper”.27 In becoming visible to someone else, someone
who looks at her as a lover rather than a mother, she exists anew. She is
temporarily freed of the contradiction of motherhood: “In this safety net the mother
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