Disjointed perspectives on motherhood / Catalina Florina Florescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Florescu, Catalina Florina.

Contributor:

Florescu, Catalina Florina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Motherhood.

Mothers in literature.

Mothers in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood seeks to reevaluate the concept of unconditional maternal love and the global emancipation of motherhood as recorded from 17th century onward and as analyzed in various genres: cinema, poetry, novel, drama, and mystery fiction series. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantment theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with t

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: A Mother's Loss of Her Daughter's Face; Chapter Two: From Child to Mother; Chapter Three: Solving the "Crumbling" Mother in Nancy Drew; Chapter Four: Feminized and Maternal Bodies; Chapter Five: The Price We Pay; Chapter Six: Childless Motherhood; Chapter Seven: Dismatria; Chapter Eight: "I wanted to hear her called Mom"; Chapter Nine: Unwanted Mother, Unwanted Motherhood; Chapter Ten: "She Who Dwells Alone..."; Chapter Eleven: Writing, Mothering, and Traumatic Subjectivity in Sapphire's Push

Chapter Twelve: Looking into the Mirror, Inscribing the Blank SlateChapter Thirteen: Wise Mother? Insane Mother?; Chapter Fourteen: Maternal Interruption; Chapter Fifteen: Mother-less; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

0-7391-8318-4

OCLC:

862746007