The roles of a man and a woman in this society complement each other. A male and a female are differentiated and acquire their identity on the basis of their sexual and gender roles. For a woman these roles are determined universally because of the biological structure. According to Simon De Beauvoir“a woman is not born a woman but becomes one”. Feminists consider marriage and motherhood as forms of subordination of a female to the male member of the household. The ideology of both these institutions demands submission of a woman to her husband and her subsequent adherence to the domains of her private life and gendered division of roles. Though motherhood is the most beautiful profession of a woman; it is also equated with femininity. It is natural and instinctual in a woman to be a mother. In a patriarchal social pattern where motherhood was seen as a form of oppression, it was also seen as a source of power which gave them respect and dignity in the society. This paper is an attempt to explore the noveldimensionsof this theme of motherhood with reference to the works of African- American feminist writers