This article traces changing conceptions of maternalism in the West German New Women's Movement from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. I argue that there were two moments in which the concept of motherhood was heatedly discussed and transformed. First, from the mid-1970s onward and within the broader cultural currents of “New Inwardness” (Neue Innerlichkeit) and “New Sensuality” (Neue Sinnlichkeit)—both of which permeated the New Left—motherhood became sensualized, eroticized, and sexualized. Second, these trends were intensified and at the same time drawn into new directions after the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. For while the focus on female corporeality was consolidated, a growing ecofeminist strand successfully reimagined motherhood as tightly bound to nature and life itself. Serving also as a means to deal with the Nazi past, this late 1980s conception of motherhood was marked by a more pessimistic, even apocalyptic outlook.

本文追溯了1970年代初至1980年代后期西德新妇女运动中母性主义观念的变化。我认为，有两个时刻对母性的概念进行了热烈的讨论和转变。首先，从1970年代中期开始，在“新内心”（Neue Innerlichkeit）和“新淫荡”（Neue Sinnlichkeit）的广泛文化潮流中）（这两种情况都渗透到了新左派中），孕产变得感性化，色情化和性化。其次，在1986年切尔诺贝利灾难之后，这些趋势愈演愈烈，同时又朝着新的方向发展。尽管巩固了对女性身体的关注，但越来越多的生态女权主义者成功地重新构想了母性与自然和生命本身的紧密联系。1980年代末期的孕产概念也作为应对纳粹过去的一种手段，其特征是更加悲观甚至是启示性的前景。