couvade

How To Use couvade In A Sentence

• But couvade, as I attempt to untangle its relation to colonialism in this essay, is a strategy re-invented for the purposes of reconciliation in narratives of Manichean allegory.
• In extreme forms of couvade, the man may mimic the pain and process of childbirth and expect his wife to wait on him in the following days.
• The grotesque comedy of the couvade, which proved a tragedy so often for the poor mother compelled by the custom to rise in her weakness and even neglect her new-born baby, in order to do double work and to tempt the appetite of her lord after his make-believe pangs of childbirth, was one sign that primitive consciousness found the new knowledge of double parentage very exciting. The Family and it's Members
• The couvade is a practical survival from the days of women's rule. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
• Freudians attributed couvade to "fetus envy," but recent science has found that it's not so cuckoo. The Plight of the Pregnant Man
• When it happens to humans, it's called 'couvade syndrome' as if it was some sort of illness. Why Expectant Dads Gain Weight Too
• In the late 19th century, psychologists termed male pregnancy symptoms couvade, from the French word "couver," meaning "to incubate" or "to brood" like a mother bird. The Plight of the Pregnant Man
• This strange malady, resembling the _couvade_ among certain savage nations, ordinarily lasted five days and four nights, but on this occasion the Ulstermen were prostrate from the beginning of November till the beginning of February. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge
• I allude to the singular custom of the "couvade," in which the father is put to bed on the birth of a child. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
• The only known cure for couvade is - birth.