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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790888403321

Autore

Florescu Catalina Florina

Titolo

Disjointed perspectives on motherhood / / Catalina Florina Florescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-7391-8318-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FlorescuCatalina Florina

Disciplina

306.8743

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Motherhood

Mothers in literature

Mothers in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: A Mother's Loss of Her Daughter's Face; Chapter Two: From Child to Mother; Chapter Three: Solving the "Crumbling" Mother in Nancy Drew; Chapter Four: Feminized and Maternal Bodies; Chapter Five: The Price We Pay; Chapter Six: Childless Motherhood; Chapter Seven: Dismatria; Chapter Eight: "I wanted to hear her called Mom"; Chapter Nine: Unwanted Mother, Unwanted Motherhood; Chapter Ten: "She Who Dwells Alone..."; Chapter Eleven: Writing, Mothering, and Traumatic Subjectivity in Sapphire's Push

Chapter Twelve: Looking into the Mirror, Inscribing the Blank SlateChapter Thirteen: Wise Mother? Insane Mother?; Chapter Fourteen: Maternal Interruption; Chapter Fifteen: Mother-less; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood seeks to reevaluate the concept of unconditional maternal love and the global emancipation of motherhood as recorded from 17th century onward and as analyzed in various genres: cinema, poetry, novel, drama, and mystery fiction series. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantment theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this



collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with t