| Description |
viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan -- Pt. I. The Acknowledgment and Appropriation of Maternal Work. 1. Thinking Mothers/Conceiving Birth / Sara Ruddick. 2. Fictions of Home /Jane Lazarre. 3. Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins. 4. The Mothers of the Disappeared: Passion and Protest in Maternal Action / Jean Bethke Elshtain. 5. Maternity and Memory: Toni Morrison's Beloved /Marianne Hirsch -- Pt. II. The Paradoxical Nature of the Maternal Position. 6. Being a Mother and Being a Psychoanalyst: Two Impossible Professions / Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel. 7. The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of Fantasy and Reality / Jessica Benjamin. 8. Mothering, Hate, and Winnicott / Elsa First. 9. Maternal Subjectivity in the Culture of Nostalgia: Mourning and Memory / Donna Bassin. 10. Rosalind: A Family Romance / Myra Goldberg |
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Pt. III. The Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of the Maternal Image. 11. Images of the Maternal: An Interview with Barbara Kruger / Therese Lichtenstein. 12. The Power of "Positive" Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp. 13. The Maternal Voice in the Technological Universe /Margaret Honey. 14. Thinking the Nature Out of Mother /Adria Schwartz. 15. Sex, Work, and Motherhood: Maternal Subjectivity in Recent Visual Culture / E. Ann Kaplan. 16. Playing and Motherhood; or, How to Get the Most Out of the Avant-Garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman |
| Analysis |
Parenthood Mothers |
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Parenthood Mothers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Motherhood in popular culture.
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Motherhood.
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Mothers -- Attitudes.
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Mothers -- Psychology.
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Mothers.
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| Author |
Bassin, Donna.
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Honey, Margaret.
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Kaplan, Meryle Mahrer, 1947-
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| LC no. |
93005933 |
| ISBN |
0300057628 (alk. paper) |
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0300068638 (paperback) |
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