Mother Without Child
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Mother Without Child

Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood

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Mother Without Child

Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood

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Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional stories of abandoned children and bad mothers, these narratives refuse to sentimentalize motherhood's losses and impasses. Hansen embraces the larger cultural story of what it means to be a mother and illuminates how motherhood is being reimagined today.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520311299
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Estudios de género

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. One A Sketch in Progress
  7. Two Not a Synthetic Maternity
  8. Three Claiming the Monstrosity in Alice Walker’s Meridian
  9. Four What If Your Mother Never Meant to?
  10. Five Mothers Yesterday and Mothers Tomorrow, but Never Mothers Today Woman on the Edge of Time and The Handmaid’s Tale
  11. Six Fay Weldon’s Mad Dolls
  12. Epilogue Feminism Is [Not] a Luxury
  13. Notes
  14. Index