Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 320
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Trim: 6⅛ x 9¼
978-0-8476-9486-0 • Hardback • April 2000 • $171.00 • (£133.00)
Andrea O'Reilly is assistant professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University. Sharon Abbey is assistant professor of education at Brock University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Mothers Telling Their Stories
Chapter 3 Mothers at Work: Representations of Maternal Practice in Literature
Chapter 4 Restorying Jewish Mothers
Chapter 5 Never One Without the Other: Empowering Readings of the Mother Daughter Relationship in Contemporary Spain
Chapter 6 Journeying Back to Mother: Pilgrimages of Maternal Redemption in the Fiction of Michele Roberts
Part 7 Dismantling Patriarchal Motherhood
Chapter 8 Bitches with Broomsticks: The Bad Mother in American Maternity Poetry
Chapter 9 Rewriting Cinderella: Envisioning the Empowering Mother Daughter Romance
Chapter 10 Heterosexual and Lesbian Mothers Challenging "Feminine" and "Masculine" Concepts of Mothering
Chapter 11 The Mammy and the Mummy: Cultural Imaginary and Interracial Coalition
Part 12 Empowering Daughters
Chapter 13 "I Come From a Long Line of Uppity Irate Black Women": African-American Feminist Thought on Motherhood, the Motherline, and the Mother-Daughter Relationship
Chapter 14 Mothers as Moral Educators: Teaching Language and Nurturing Souls
Chapter 15 The Global Self-Esteem of an African-American Adolescent Female and Her Relationship with Her Mother
Chapter 16 Educated Mothers as a Tool for Change: Possibilities and Constraints
Chapter 17 Telling Our Stories: Feminist Mothers and Daughters
Chapter 18 Biting the Hand that Feeds You: Feminism as the "Bad Mother"
Part 19 Connecting/Disrupting the Motherline
Chapter 20 Mother of Mothers, Daughter of Daughters: Reflectons on the Motherline
Chapter 21 Don't Blame Mother: Then and Now
Chapter 22 Motherline Connections Across Cultures and Generations
Chapter 23 Constantly Negotiating: Between My Mother and My Daughter
Chapter 24 Revisioning the Maternal Body: Loving in Difference in Ngozi Onwurah's FilmThe Body Beautiful
A splendid collection that resoundingly confirms the centrality of mother-daughter relationships to women's well-being and feminist politics. Recognizing the perspectives of adult women as well as girls, the editors are committed to strengthening sturdy reliable connections between mothers and daughters without denying the forces that drive them apart. Offering a rich array of stories from different social classes, ethnicities, races, religions, sexualities, and nations, Mothers and Daughters is a welcome addition to ongoing feminist revisions of an intimate yet politically resonant relationship.
— Sara Ruddick, New School University
...provocative volume. ...worthy of classroom interrogation. Offers nuanced and rich ways of considering the complexities of the mother-child relationship. The diversity and inclusivity that punctuate the book offer necessary depth and varying perspectives to classes and courses that privilege gender, class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
— Feminist Formations
I was excited to find a collection in which authors from various cultures go beyond praise and blame to illuminate the positive potential of the mother-daughter connection in the face of cultural impediments. The variety of formats and perspectives add further depth and new insights.
— Miriam M. Johnson, University of Oregon