Author : Ann Dally
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805207651
Inventing Motherhood
Ann Dally
Inventing Motherhood
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Inventing Motherhood
Ann Dally
Author : Ann Dally
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 0091472415
Inventing Motherhood by Ann Dally Pdf
From Motherhood to Mothering
Andrea O'Reilly
Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791484135
From Motherhood to Mothering by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf
In the years since the publication of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central issue in feminist scholarship. Arguably still the best feminist book on mothering and motherhood, Of Woman Born is not only a wide-ranging, far-reaching meditation on the meaning and experience of motherhood that draws from the disciplines of anthropology, feminist theory, psychology, and literature, but it also narrates Rich's personal reflections on her experiences of mothering. Andrea O'Reilly gathers feminist scholars from diverse disciplines such as literature, women's studies, law, sociology, anthropology, creative writing, and critical theory and examines how Of Woman Born has informed and influenced the way feminist scholarship "thinks and talks" about motherhood. The contributors explore the many ways in which Rich provides the analytical tools to study and report upon the meaning and experience of motherhood.
The Mother / Daughter Plot
Marianne Hirsch
Author : Marianne Hirsch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253115752
The Mother / Daughter Plot by Marianne Hirsch Pdf
Mothers and daughters -- the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative -- are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of both the familial structures basic to traditional narrative -- the Oedipus story -- and the narrative structures basic to traditional representations of the family -- Freud's family romance. Confronting psychoanalytic theories of subject-formation with narrative theories, Marianne Hirsch traces the emergence and transformation of female family romance patterns from Jane Austen to Marguerite Duras.
Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective
Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
Author : Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429581915
Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective by Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq Pdf
Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides the reader with an insight into certain representations of mothers and motherhood in history and today’s societies in some areas of the world, notably in Britain and Asia. Key facts about the history of motherhood are presented, together with the use of very recent notions and phrases portraying ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothers. An analysis of the concepts of naming and blaming, along with regret with respect to mothers in 21st century societies, provides food for thought. Other issues addressed are varied and numerous: the politics of early intervention, feminist critique, mothers with disabilities and mothers of disabled children, incarcerated mothers, surrogate mothers, teenage mothers, lesbian mothers, and mothering in Eastern Asia, namely in China, Japan, and Korea. Interestingly, both visual arts and literature play a crucial role in this analysis. The publication will appeal to students, academics, researchers, and the general public interested in and seeking to comprehend the shifts that have occurred over time in connection with the vast and inexhaustible subject of motherhood and mothers – a private and public matter. Readers are also provided with a rich reference section dealing with the latest publications on the issues tackled by prominent academics and researchers in human geography, women’s studies, sociology, gender studies, contemporary history, and the arts.
The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination
Berit Åström
Author : Berit Åström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319490373
The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination by Berit Åström Pdf
This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children’s literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies.
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers
Alena Amato Ruggerio
Author : Alena Amato Ruggerio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780739177082
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers by Alena Amato Ruggerio Pdf
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women's identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, "momtini" blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women's practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture. Read the author's recent interview with Literary Ashland. You can also visit the author's website here.
Mother Outlaws
Andrea O'Reilly
Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889614468
Mother Outlaws by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf
Feminist scholars of motherhood distinguish between mothering and motherhood, and argue that the latter is a patriarchal institution that is oppressive to women. Few scholars, however, have considered how mothering, as a female defined and centred experience, may be a site of empowerment for women. This collection is the first to do so. Mother Outlaws examines how mothers imagine and implement theories and practices of mothering that are empowering to women. Central to this inquiry is the recognition that mothers and children benefit when the mother lives her life, and practices mothering, from a position of agency, authority, authenticity and autonomy.
Mothers and King Baby
Philippa Mein Smith
Author : Philippa Mein Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781349143047
Mothers and King Baby by Philippa Mein Smith Pdf
This book is about infant mortality decline, the rise of the infant welfare movement, outcomes in terms of changing priorities in child health and what happened to mothers and babies. Infant welfare raised public awareness but did not contribute as powerfully to improved infant survival - and so longer life - as protagonists claimed. This work shows what it meant for reformers, babies and mothers when the call was 'population is power: the nation that has the babies has the future'.
Motherhood and Feminism
Amber E. Kinser
Author : Amber E. Kinser
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580053532
Motherhood and Feminism by Amber E. Kinser Pdf
How does feminism relate to motherhood, how has it changed over time, and what does the future of motherhood and feminism look like? These are just some of the questions Amber E. Kinser, PhD, tackles in this latest addition to the Seal Studies Series. Motherhood and Feminism examines the role of feminism within motherhood—a topic that has garnered a lot of attention lately as society shifts to adapt to new definitions of these roles—and offers insight into the core questions of motherhood: what it means to be a good mother, what role mothers play in the family and in society, and how motherhood has been redefined throughout time. Kinser also speculates on the future directions of feminism—focusing on the expansion of contemporary mother activism that has occurred in the last 15 years, and emphasizing the need for that expansion to continue—and examines how the changing world of motherhood fits into feminist activism.
The Concept of Motherhood in India
Zinia Mitra
Author : Zinia Mitra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527546806
The Concept of Motherhood in India by Zinia Mitra Pdf
This book presents an overview of heterogeneous and homogeneous exemplifications of the concept of motherhood from ancient times until the present day. It discusses the centrality of motherhood in women’s lives, and considers the ways in which the ideology of motherhood and the concept of ideal motherhood are manufactured. This is validated through analysis of various institutional structures of society, including archetypes, religion, and media. The first section of the book locates motherhood in its historical context, and rereads the myths surrounding it as overarching social constructs. The second part explores the different theories, which have developed around motherhood, in order to outline and understand the concept. The section also looks at the lived reality of motherhood.
Staging Motherhood
J. Komporaly
Author : J. Komporaly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230598485
Staging Motherhood by J. Komporaly Pdf
Focusing on post-1956 British women playwrights, this book questions to what extent transformations in women's lives have impacted on theatre. Contributing to a range of discourses, including gender studies, cultural studies and theatre and performance studies, this timely volume is crucial to our understanding of women's drama in this period.
Motherhood and Sport
Lucy Spowart,Kerry R. McGannon
Author : Lucy Spowart,Kerry R. McGannon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000634358
Motherhood and Sport by Lucy Spowart,Kerry R. McGannon Pdf
Although sport participation decreases on average for women once they become mothers, female athletes from the recreational, to the competitive, to the elite level have demonstrated that motherhood does not signal the end of sport engagement and athletic identities, or career and leadership roles. This is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the nexus of women, sport and culture within the context of motherhood, uncovering new narratives that raise the profile of non-conformist performances. The book brings together international researchers using innovative and rigorous qualitative methods to show how sport affords or constrains women’s agency to devise, negotiate and live alternative versions of motherhood in and through sport. Presenting stories of sporting mothers in contexts including martial arts, leisure swimming, recreational running, triathlon and climbing, the book explores the shifting meaning and practices of motherhood across social, cultural and media/digital landscapes. Deliberately challenging taken-for-granted ways of thinking about motherhood and sport, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the socio-cultural study of sport, gender and sport, women’s studies, sport coaching, sport leadership, sport development, or qualitative and digital research methods.
Motherhood and Choice
Amrita Nandy
Author : Amrita Nandy
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789385932496
Motherhood and Choice by Amrita Nandy Pdf
How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan.
Modern Motherhood
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Author : Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813563800
Modern Motherhood by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves Pdf
How did mothers transform from parents of secondary importance in the colonies to having their multiple and complex roles connected to the well-being of the nation? In the first comprehensive history of motherhood in the United States, Jodi Vandenberg-Daves explores how tensions over the maternal role have been part and parcel of the development of American society. Modern Motherhood travels through redefinitions of motherhood over time, as mothers encountered a growing cadre of medical and psychological experts, increased their labor force participation, gained the right to vote, agitated for more resources to perform their maternal duties, and demonstrated their vast resourcefulness in providing for and nurturing their families. Navigating rigid gender role prescriptions and a crescendo of mother-blame by the middle of the twentieth century, mothers continued to innovate new ways to combine labor force participation and domestic responsibilities. By the 1960s, they were poised to challenge male expertise, in areas ranging from welfare and abortion rights to childbirth practices and the confinement of women to maternal roles. In the twenty-first century, Americans continue to struggle with maternal contradictions, as we pit an idealized role for mothers in children’s development against the social and economic realities of privatized caregiving, a paltry public policy structure, and mothers’ extensive employment outside the home. Building on decades of scholarship and spanning a wide range of topics, Vandenberg-Daves tells an inclusive tale of African American, Native American, Asian American, working class, rural, and other hitherto ignored families, exploring sources ranging from sermons, medical advice, diaries and letters to the speeches of impassioned maternal activists. Chapter topics include: inventing a new role for mothers; contradictions of moral motherhood; medicalizing the maternal body; science, expertise, and advice to mothers; uplifting and controlling mothers; modern reproduction; mothers’ resilience and adaptation; the middle-class wife and mother; mother power and mother angst; and mothers’ changing lives and continuous caregiving. While the discussion has been part of all eras of American history, the discussion of the meaning of modern motherhood is far from over.
