ABSTRACT
What might grandmotherly feelings be like that I might know them? After all even motherliness was never my strong point though, perversely, I was indeed the earth-mother for a surprisingly resilient community of adults and kids. Yet I never really saw myself as a mother, even though parenthood was my dominant identity and the rationale for all my other roles and statuses. I’ve always been so over-ridingly ideological that when I fiercely maintained that I had no interest in biological, but only in cultural, reproduction, I did actually mean it. And I still do.
