From motherhood to mothering : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born / / edited by Andrea O'Reilly

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/3
• Soggetto topico: Motherhood; Feminist theory; Motherhood in literature
• Altri autori: O'ReillyAndrea <1961->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- From Motherhood to Mothering -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ANDREA O'REILLY -- PART ONE: Motherhood as Institution Patriarchal Power and Maternal Outrage -- 1. The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be "Of Woman Born" DIANA GINN -- 2. Of Party-State Born: Motherhood, Reproductive Politics, and the Chinese Nation-State SARAH E. STEVENS -- 3. Murderous Mothers: Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born and Toni Morrison's Beloved EMILY JEREMIAH -- PART TWO: Mothering as Experience: Empowerment and Resistance -- 4. "We Have Mama but No Papa" Motherhood in Women-Centered Societies MARIA-BARBARA WATSON-FRANKE -- 5. Mother as Transformer: Strategic Symbols of Matrilineage Recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots DANNABANG KUWABONG -- 6. Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born: Motherhood Outside Institutionalized Heterosexuality KATE McCULLOUGH -- 7. Feminist Mothers: Successfully Negotiating the Tension between Motherhood as "Institution" and "Experience" FIONA JOY GREEN -- 8. Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth KARIN VOTH HARMAN -- 9. Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children ANDREA O'REILLY -- 10. The Broken Shovel: Looking Back from Postmaternity at Co-Parenting MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE -- PART THREE: Narrating Maternity: Writing as a Mother -- 11. Adrienne Rich's "Clearing in the Imagination": Of Woman Born as Literary Criticism D'ARCY RANDALL -- 12. A "Sense of Drift": Adrienne Rich's Emergence from Mother to Poet JEANNETTE E. RILEY -- 13. Beginning with "I": The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born ANN KENISTON -- Contributors -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.
• Titolo autorizzato: From motherhood to mothering
• ISBN: 9780791484135; 0791484130; 9781423739623; 1423739620
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966731203321
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