Mothers and Daughters
Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation
Mothers and Daughters
Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation
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In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote in Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution that “the cathexis between mother and daughter-essential, distorted, misused-is the great unwritten story.” In the quarter century since Rich wrote those words, the topic of mothers and daughters has emerged as a salient issue in feminist scholarship.
Using women's writing, film, feminist theory, and personal experience, contributors to Mothers and Daughters explore how the mother/daughter relationship is represented and experienced as a site of empowerment. This volume will offer readers an important and welcome chapter in the story of the complex relationship that is a part of nearly every woman's life.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Mothers Telling Their Stories
Chapter 3 Mothers at Work: Representations of Maternal Practice in Literature
Chapter 4 Restorying Jewish Mothers
Chapter 5 Never One Without the Other: Empowering Readings of the Mother Daughter Relationship in Contemporary Spain
Chapter 6 Journeying Back to Mother: Pilgrimages of Maternal Redemption in the Fiction of Michele Roberts
Part 7 Dismantling Patriarchal Motherhood
Chapter 8 Bitches with Broomsticks: The Bad Mother in American Maternity Poetry
Chapter 9 Rewriting Cinderella: Envisioning the Empowering Mother Daughter Romance
Chapter 10 Heterosexual and Lesbian Mothers Challenging "Feminine" and "Masculine" Concepts of Mothering
Chapter 11 The Mammy and the Mummy: Cultural Imaginary and Interracial Coalition
Part 12 Empowering Daughters
Chapter 13 "I Come From a Long Line of Uppity Irate Black Women": African-American Feminist Thought on Motherhood, the Motherline, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Chapter 14 Mothers as Moral Educators: Teaching Language and Nurturing Souls
Chapter 15 The Global Self-Esteem of an African-American Adolescent Female and Her Relationship with Her Mother
Chapter 16 Educated Mothers as a Tool for Change: Possibilities and Constraints
Chapter 17 Telling Our Stories: Feminist Mothers and Daughters
Chapter 18 Biting the Hand that Feeds You: Feminism as the "Bad Mother"
Part 19 Connecting/Disrupting the Motherline
Chapter 20 Mother of Mothers, Daughter of Daughters: Reflectons on the Motherline
Chapter 21 Don't Blame Mother: Then and Now
Chapter 22 Motherline Connections Across Cultures and Generations
Chapter 23 Constantly Negotiating: Between My Mother and My Daughter
Chapter 24 Revisioning the Maternal Body: Loving in Difference in Ngozi Onwurah's FilmThe Body Beautiful
Product details
| Published | Apr 05 2000 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9780847694860 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 235 x 155 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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