Research Catalog

Title

Redefining motherhood : changing identities and patterns / edited by Sharon Abbey & Andrea O'Reilly.

Publication

Toronto : Second Story Press, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Abbey, Sharon
• O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
• Abbey, Sharon.

Description

339 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Twenty-three women, teaching at colleges and universities throughout Canada, explore how traditional views of motherhood have been influenced by changing social and cultural conditions. Their essays unravel patriarchal constructions of motherhood and re-present new definitions drawn from women's lived experiences.
• "Redefining Motherhood is a welcome, lively and challenging addition to the ongoing feminist conversation about mothering. Eighteen powerful essays challenge the familiar cultural image of the "good" mother. Showing how constricting and damaging the stereotype is, the contributors replace an unreal, narrow ideal with the complexity and diversity of real mothers' lives. Drawing from their broad range of experiences, the writers show the many and varied ways in which women are transforming motherhood." --Maureen Reddy, co-author of Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivity and co-editor of Mother Journeys: Feminists Write about Mothering.

Series Statement

Women's issues publishing program

Uniform Title

Women's issues publishing program

Subject

• Motherhood
• Mothers and daughters
• Mères et filles
• Maternité

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Sharon Abbey & Andrea O'Reilly -- Part I : Disrupting maternal patterns at home, school and work. Comparing how mothers influence the education of daughters and sons / Sharon Abbey, Joyce Castle & Cecilia Reynolds ; "Does the word LESBIAN mean anything to you?" : lesbians raising daughters / Katherine Arnup ; Across the divide : contemporary Anglo-American feminist theory on the mother-daughter relationship . Andrea O'Reilly ; Mothers as teachers, teachers as mothers / Alice Collins ; Written on the body / Rishma Dunlop -- Part II : Maternal values in transition from adolescence to mid-life. Teenage girls making sense of mothering : what has (relational) equality got to do with it? / Arlene Tigar McLaren & Ann Vanderbijl ; Mother to daughter : the shaping of a girl's values in the context of a parent with a chronic illness / Karen A. BLackford ; Motherhood, changing relationships and the reproduction of gender inequality / Bonnie Fox ; Unraveling the myth of the perfect mother with mothers of early adolescent girls / Elizabeth Diem -- Part III : The motherline : personal and historical narratives. Between exile and home / Martha McMahon ; Black women and the meaning of motherhood / Nina Lyon Jenkins ; The experience of mother loss : voices of adult daughters and implications for feminist practice / Mary Valentich & Catherine Foote ; If you die it will kill me : aborting maternal history / Erin Soros ; African Nova Scotian women : mothering across the generations -- Part IV : Multiple identities of otherhood : rights, choices and divergence. The other within the self : black daughter, white mother and the narrative construction of identity / Elizabeth Yeoman ; Emancipated subjectivities and the subjugation of mothering practices / Mielle Chandler ; Mothering the well-born : choice as a system of governance / Fiona Alice Miller & Melanie Rock ; Mothers for "hire" : why do women foster? / Baukje (Bo) Miedema -- Study notes -- Glossary.

ISBN

1896764061

LCCN

^^^98187384^

OCLC

• 39070371
• SCSB-11565770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library