| Description |
viii, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking mothers/conceiving birth / Sara Ruddick -- Fictions of home / Jane Lazarre -- Shifting the center : race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- The mothers of the disappeared : passion and protest in maternal action / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Maternity and rememory : Toni Morrison's Beloved / Marianne Hirsch -- Being a mother and being a psychoanalyst : two impossible professions / Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel -- The omnipotent mother : a psychoanalytic study of fantasy and reality / Jessica Benjamin -- Mothering, hate, and Winnicott / Elsa First -- Maternal subjectivity in the culture of nostalgia : mourning and memory / Donna Bassin -- Rosalind : a family romance / Myra Goldberg -- Images of the maternal : an interview with Barbara Kruger / Therese Lichtenstein -- The power of "positive" diagnosis : medical and maternal discourses on amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp. |
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The maternal voice in the technological universe / Margaret Honey -- Taking the nature out of mother / Adria Schwartz -- Sex, work, and motherhood : maternal subjectivity in recent visual culture / E. Ann Kaplan -- Playing and motherhood : or, how to get the most out of the avant-garde / Susan Rubin Suleiman. |
| Subject |
Motherhood in popular culture.
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| Added Author |
Bassin, Donna.
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Honey, Margaret.
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Kaplan, Meryle Mahrer, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0300057628 (alk. paper) |
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