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Mother without child : contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood / Elaine Tuttle Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Mothers in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Feminism and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
- Women and literature.
- Femininity in literature.
- Mother and child in literature.
- Love, Maternal, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- A sketch in progress : introducing the mother without child
- Not a synthetic maternity : Jane Rule's fiction
- Claiming the monstrosity in Alice Walker's Meridian
- What if your mother never meant to? : the novels of Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris
- Mothers yesterday and mothers tomorrow, but never mothers today : Woman on the edge of time & The handmaid's tale
- Fay Weldon's Mad dolls
- Feminism is [not] a luxury.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-34897-9
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