LEADER 03790nam 2200469 450 001 9910746071203321 005 20231002142553.0 010 $a3-031-39351-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30745832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30745832 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928234559400041 100 $a20231002d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a21st-Century narratives of maternal ambivalence /$fRachel Williamson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave studies in (re)presenting gender 311 08$aPrint version: Williamson, Rachel 21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031393501 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 327 $a"Alluvial Flow" -- Female Friendships -- References -- Chapter 7: "Strange and Wild": Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence -- "Sometimes the Shit Stays Messy" -- Queering the Maternal -- "A Buoyant Eros": Corporeal Pleasures -- Ethical Relationality -- References -- Index. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in (re)presenting gender. 517 3 $aTwenty-first-Century narratives of maternal ambivalence 606 $aMotherhood$xPsychological aspects 606 $aMotherhood$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMotherhood$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aMotherhood$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.8743 700 $aWilliamson$b Rachel$01429648 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746071203321 996 $a21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence$93568708 997 $aUNINA