“This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.” MotherhoodWomanAuthoritarian IdeologySexual RepressionSexual Consciousness Book:The Mass Psychology of Fascism Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism