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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809429003321

Autore

Lawler Steph <1958, >

Titolo

Mothering the self : mothers, daughters, subjects / / Steph Lawler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-69716-3

0-203-13139-8

1-280-32972-6

0-203-17106-3

1-134-69717-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Disciplina

306.8743

Soggetti

Mothers and daughters

Women

Child & Youth Development

Family & Marriage

Social Welfare & Social Work

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: mothering the self; 1 Being and knowing: the social relations of truth; 2 Guaranteeing the social order; 3 (Re)producing the self; 4 Girls growing up: regulation and autonomy; 5 Daughterly stories: matrophobia, class and the self; 6 Maternal stories, maternal selves; 7 Children's needs and mothers' desires; 8 Telling other stories: refiguring motherhood and daughterhood; Appendix I; Appendix II; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these maternal and daughterly stories by drawing on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters. This study examines the ways in which



these mothers and daughters participate in their understanding of class, gender, and race locations, both using and resisting them. The result is a fresh start from which to consider the far-reaching implications of this relationship - no