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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816217703321

Titolo

Mothers who deliver [[electronic resource] ] : feminist interventions in public and interpersonal discourse / / edited by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt and Pegeen Reichert Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3225-9

1-4416-7410-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Altri autori (Persone)

PowellPegeen Reichert <1970->

StittJocelyn Fenton

Disciplina

306.874/301

Soggetti

Feminism

Motherhood - Political aspects

Mothers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. 2. Feminist interventions in interpersonal discourse. More than talk : single mothers claiming space and subjectivity on the university campus / Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson -- From postcolonial to postpartum : pedagogical politics of motherhood / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt -- Constrained agency : British heterosexual mothers of homosexual sons / Janet Peukert -- Writing the script : finding a language for mothering / Lynn Kuechle -- From gestation to delivery : the embodied activist mothering of Cindy Sheehan and Jennifer Schumaker / Natalie Wilson -- Political motherhood in the United States and Argentina / Meghan Gibbons -- ; Epilogue : Power in a movement / Judith Stadtman Tucker.

; Introduction: Delivering mothering studies / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt and Pegeen Reichert Powell -- ; pt. 1. Feminist interventions in public discourse. Contrapuntal delivery and reception of Hildegard Westerkamp's electrovocal performance work on mothering, Moments of laughter / Andra McCartney -- The empty mirror no more : mother-daughter relationship and film spectatorship in Patricia Cardoso's Real women have curves / Nan Ma -- Cyborg mothering / Shelley Park --



"Mommyblogging Is a radical act" : weblog communities and the construction of maternal identities / Lisa Hammond -- "The pencilling mamma" : public motherhood in Alice Meynell's essays on children / Lee Behlman -- Picturing mom : mythic and real mothers in children's picture books / Gretchen Papazian --

Sommario/riassunto

New directions in thinking about mothering.