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Mother Without Child : Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood / Elaine Tuttle Hansen.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Elaine Tuttle, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Femininity in literature.
- Feminism in literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Love, Maternal, in literature.
- Mother and child in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional stories of abandoned children and bad mothers, these narratives refuse to sentimentalize motherhood's losses and impasses. Hansen embraces the larger cultural story of what it means to be a mother and illuminates how motherhood is being reimagined today. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- One. A Sketch in Progress
- Two. Not a Synthetic Maternity
- Three. Claiming the Monstrosity in Alice Walker's Meridian
- Four. What If Your Mother Never Meant to?
- Five. Mothers Yesterday and Mothers Tomorrow, but Never Mothers Today
- Six. Fay Weldon's Mad Dolls
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520311299
- 0520311299
- OCLC:
- 1198931983
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