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From motherhood to mothering : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born / edited by Andrea O'Reilly.

O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0791462870
ISBN: 0791462889
ISBN: 0791484130
ISBN: 1423739620
ISBN: 9780791462874
ISBN: 9780791462881
ISBN: 9780791484135
ISBN: 9781423739623
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 251 pages)
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, �2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.19 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part 1. Motherhood as institution : patriarchal power and maternal outrage. The Supreme Court of Canada and what it means to be "of woman born" / Diana Ginn ; Of party-state born : motherhood, reproductive politics, and the Chinese nation-state / Sarah E. Stevens ; Murderous mothers : Adrienne Rich's Of woman born and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Emily Jeremiah -- Part 2. Mothering as experience : empowerment and resistance. "We have mama but no papa" : motherhood in women-centered societies / Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke ; Mother as transformer : strategic symbols of matrilineage recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Dannabang Kuwabong ; Of woman (but not man or the nuclear family) born : motherhood outside institutionalized heterosexuality / Kate McCullough ; Feminist mothers : successfully negotiating the tension between motherhood as "institution" and "experience" / Fiona Joy Green ; Immortality and morality in contemporary reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone myth / Karin Voth Harman ; Mothering against motherhood and the possibility of empowered maternity for mothers and their children / Andrea O'Reilly ; The broken shovel : looking back from postmaternity at co-parenting / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Part 3. Narrating maternity : writing as a mother. Adrienne Rich's "Clearing in the imagination" : Of woman born as literary criticism / D'Arcy Randall ; A "sense of drift" : Adrienne Rich's emergence from mother to poet / Jeannette E. Riley ; Beginning with "I" : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born / Ann Keniston.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.