Narrating mothers : theorizing maternal subjectivities / edited by Brenda O. Daly, Maureen T. Reddy.

Other author Daly, Brenda O., 1955-
Other author Reddy, Maureen T.
Format Book
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1991.
Descriptionx, 297 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Nurturing mothers : theorizing maternal subjectivities / Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy -- Mothers tomorrow and mothers yesterday, but never mothers today : Women on the edge of time and The handmaid's tale / Elaine Tuttle Hansen -- Mother right/write revisited : Beloved andDessa Rose and the construction of motherhood in black women's fiction / Carole Boyce Davies -- Mothering an autistic child : reclaiming thevoice of the mother / Jane Taylor McDonnell -- Constructing the mother : contemporary psychoanalytic theorists and women autobiographers / Shirley Nelson Garner -- Her mother's language / Cecilia Konchar Farr -- Facing the gorgon : good and bad mothers in the late novels of Margaret Drabble / Mary Jane Elkins -- The mother's part : incest and maternal deprivation in Woolf and Morrison / Paula Bennett -- The diaries of Jane Somers : Doris Lessing, feminism, and the mother / Gayle Greene -- This is not for you : the sexuality of mothering / Judith Roof -- Adoptive mothers and thrown-away children in the novels of Louise Endrich / Hertha D. Wong.
Contents Truth in mothering : Grace Paley's stories / Judith Arcana -- Mary Gordon's mothers / Ruth Perry -- Maternal reading : Lazarre and Walker / Maureen T. Reddy -- Teaching Alice Walker's Meridian : civil rights according to mothers / Brenda O. Dale -- Teaching/(m)othering : the feminist classroom as unbounded text / Sheryl O'Donnell.
Local noteLittle-278470--305130036132R
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index.
LCCN 90027053
ISBN0870497065 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
ISBN0870497057 (cloth : alk. paper) :

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.5.M67 N37 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold