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- noun Plural form of
othermother .
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Black communities typically emphasize not only the responsibility of “bloodmothers” for their own children but also of what Collins calls othermothers ” grandmothers, sisters, aunts, neighbors and “fictive mothers” who view the children of the community as “our” children (1995, 131).
Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism Warnke, Georgia 2008
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