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Mother-texts : narratives and counter-narratives
- Title
- Mother-texts : narratives and counter-narratives / edited by Marie Porter and Julie Kelso.
- Publication
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xxiv, 339 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- It is significant for mothers that neither mothers nor their motherwork have been considered worthy of historical record, nor are historical records usually written from a mother's perspective. The narrative research in this book gives recognition to motherhood, mothers and the work they do.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Lost children and imaginary mothers in Sonya Hartnett's Of a boy / Vivienne Muller -- Embroidering the tale : reading Luce Irigaray reading Snow White / Wendy Green -- Psychoanalysing motherhood as transience in Okamoto Kanoko's Sushi / Kyoko Taniguchi -- Origination and the holy mark of the motherless body : Pilate's absent navel in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon / Julie Kelso -- Finnish women's autobiographies : responses to the call for nationalist agency / Ritva Nätkin -- Writing Daughter : writing mother / Deborah Jordan -- Mothers in the ancient Indian pantheon : diverse representations of goddesses in the Rgveda / Victoria Grace -- The presentation of motherhood in the Law code of Manu / Tamara Ditrich -- Media portrayals of motherhood in parenting magazines in contemporary Japan / Tomoko Shimoda -- Sex in the seventies : 1970s maternal advice manuals on breastfeeding / Alison Bartlett -- "The only really worthwhile role for women"? : monitoring media representations of fertility and motherhood in pronatalist Australia / Marilyn Anderson -- Narratives about work from early mothering talk / Lisa Raith -- Becoming a mother : narratives of homeless young mothers and wellbeing / Deborah Keys -- Prenatal expectations : effects on the experiences of motherhood and the mothering role / Tammy Rendina and Pranee Liamputtong -- Detecting the less than perfect : how amniocentesis is changing attitudes to mothering a child with a disability / Fiona Place -- With love : a celebratory counter narrative of (dis?)-ability / Marie Porter -- Listening for, and to, the voices in a mother's story : using the "listening guide" in narrative research / Eleanor Milligan and Jenny Jones
- ISBN
- 9781443823326
- 1443823325
- LCCN
- 2011379029
- OCLC
- ocn650439288
- 650439288
- SCSB-1576170
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library