21st-Century narratives of maternal ambivalence / / Rachel Williamson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910746071203321
• Autore: Williamson Rachel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-031-39351-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender
• Disciplina: 306.8743
• Soggetti: Motherhood - Psychological aspects; Motherhood - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: 'An Exquisite Suffering' -- Maternal Ambivalence -- Academia's Ambivalent Relationship with Motherhood -- Second-Wave Feminism: From Repudiation to Recuperation -- Psychoanalytic Accounts of Motherhood -- 1980s to Today: Disavowal and Disappearance -- Representing Mothers -- Defining 'Mother' -- Structure of the Book -- Implications and Possibilities -- References -- Chapter 2: Contextualising Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism -- "What's Your Style?": Ideologies of Intensive Mothering -- "Having It All": Neoliberalism and Motherhood -- Big Little Lies -- Chick lit, #metoo and the Domestic -- Big Little Lies: An Ambivalent and Ambiguous Engagement with Motherhood -- "What About What's Best for Us?!": Challenging the Myth of the Good Mother -- Neoliberalism, Work, and Yummy-Mummies -- "Hey Mama Bear!": The Sublimation of Maternal Sexuality -- References -- Chapter 3: 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother -- Waru: A Collective Vision -- The Ethical Potential of Omnibus Films -- Colonisation and Its Effects -- Motherhood in Waru -- Mihi -- Em -- Charm -- References -- Chapter 4: Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body -- Repudiating the Body -- Second-Wave Somatophobia -- Horrifying Maternal Bodies -- "Vomiting the Mother" -- The Death of the Mother -- Publicising Maternal ; Corporeality -- "Breast Is Best" -- References -- Chapter 5: The Body in Extremis: Vocalising Maternal Corporeality -- Rachel Cusk and the "Book of Repetition" -- Ferrante Fever -- Dissolving Bodies, Dissolving Boundaries -- Domestic Spaces and Invasion -- References -- Chapter 6: Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience -- Maternal Resilience -- "Bearing Her Subjectivity" -- Self and Other -- Survival Narratives.; "Alluvial Flow" -- Female Friendships -- References -- Chapter 7: "Strange and Wild": Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence -- "Sometimes the Shit Stays Messy" -- Queering the Maternal -- "A Buoyant Eros": Corporeal Pleasures -- Ethical Relationality -- References -- Index.