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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Feminist theory.

Motherhood in literature.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012. Of woman born.

Rich, Adrienne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

Contents:

Intro

From Motherhood to Mothering

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction ANDREA O'REILLY

PART ONE: Motherhood as Institution Patriarchal Power and Maternal Outrage

1. The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be "Of Woman Born" DIANA GINN

2. Of Party-State Born: Motherhood, Reproductive Politics, and the Chinese Nation-State SARAH E. STEVENS

3. Murderous Mothers: Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born and Toni Morrison's Beloved EMILY JEREMIAH

PART TWO: Mothering as Experience: Empowerment and Resistance

4. "We Have Mama but No Papa" Motherhood in Women-Centered Societies MARIA-BARBARA WATSON-FRANKE

5. Mother as Transformer: Strategic Symbols of Matrilineage Recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots DANNABANG KUWABONG

6. Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born: Motherhood Outside Institutionalized Heterosexuality KATE McCULLOUGH

7. Feminist Mothers: Successfully Negotiating the Tension between Motherhood as "Institution" and "Experience" FIONA JOY GREEN

8. Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth KARIN VOTH HARMAN

9. Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children ANDREA O'REILLY

10. The Broken Shovel: Looking Back from Postmaternity at Co-Parenting MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE

PART THREE: Narrating Maternity: Writing as a Mother

11. Adrienne Rich's "Clearing in the Imagination": Of Woman Born as Literary Criticism D'ARCY RANDALL

12. A "Sense of Drift": Adrienne Rich's Emergence from Mother to Poet JEANNETTE E. RILEY

13. Beginning with "I": The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born ANN KENISTON

Contributors

INDEX

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791484135

0791484130

9781423739623

1423739620

OCLC:

62756904