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Maternal theory : essential readings

O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961- (editor.).

Summary: Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the must read theorists on motherhood. Writers include: Adrienne Rich, Nancy Chodorow, Sara Ruddick, Alice Walker, Barbara Katz Rothman, bell hooks, Sharon Hays, Patricia Hill-Collins, Julia Kristeva, Kim Anderson, Audre Lorde, Ellen Lewin, Daphne de Marneffe, Ariel Gore, Ann Crittenden, Judith Warner and many more. Maternal Theory is essential reading for anyone interested in motherhood as experience, ideology, and identity.

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ISBN: 9781550144826
ISBN: 1550144820
ISBN: 9781927335536
ISBN: 9781927335512
ISBN: 1927335531
ISBN: 1927335515
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 846 pages)
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Publisher: Toronto : Demeter Press, [2007]
Copyright: �2007

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly -- Introduction from Of Woman Born / Adrienne Rich -- Anger and Tenderness / Adrienne Rich -- Early psychological development: psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender / Nancy Chodorow -- The dialectics of reproduction / Mary O'Brian -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Maternal thinking / Sara Ruddick -- Preservative love and the military destruction: some reflections on mothering and peace / Sara Ruddick -- Revolutionary parenting / bell hooks -- Man child: a black lesbian feminist's response / Audre Lorde -- Stabat Mater / Julia Kristeva -- The radical potential in lesbian mothering of daughters / Baba Copper -- Lesbians choosing children: the personal is political revisited / Nancy D. Polikoff -- Women's mothering and male misogyny / Miriam M. Johnson -- It's only natural / Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey -- Unspeakable plots / Marianne Hirsch -- Prelude: origins and paradigms / Marianne Hirsch -- Homeplace: a site of resistance / bell hooks -- The meaning of motherhood in black culture and black mother-daughter relationships / Patricia Hill Collins -- Feminism and motherhood: an American reading / Ann Snitow -- Shifting the center: race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- The myths of motherhood / Shari L. Thurer -- Leaving home: the young man's rite of passage / Olga Silverstein, Beth Rashbaum -- Negotiating lesbian motherhood: the dialectics of resistance and accommodation / Ellen Lewin -- Beyond mothers and fathers: ideology in a patriarchal society / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Why can't a mother be more like a businessman? / Sharon Hays -- A sketch in progress: introducing the mother without child / Elaine Tuttle Hansen -- Faking motherhood: the mask revealed / Susan Maushart -- Killing the black body / Dorothy Roberts -- The baby and the bath water: disabled women and motherhood in social context / Carol Thomas -- Does the word lesbian mean anything to you? / Katherine Arnup -- Emancipated subjectivities and the subjugation of mothering practices / Mielle Chandler -- Mothering and feminism: essential mothering and the dilemma of difference / Patrice DiQuinzio -- Reimagining adoption and family law / Drucilla Cornell -- The omnipotent mother: a psychoanalytic study of fantasy and reality / Jessica Benjamin -- Dont' blame mother: then and now / Paula J. Caplan -- Where we are now / Ann Crittenden -- The new momism / Susan J. Douglas, Meredity W. Michaels -- Right to mothering: motherhood as a transborder concern in the age of globalization / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- The globalization of love: transnational adoption and engagement with the globalized world / Emily J. Noonan -- Mother-worship/mother-blame: politics and welfare in an uncertain age / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- The 'problem' of maternal desire / Daphne de Marneffe -- We will no longer be silent or invisible: Latinas organizing for reproductive justice / Elena R. Guiti�errez -- The motherhood religion / Judith Warner -- Domestic intellectuals: freedom and the single mom / Jane Juffer -- High risk: who a mother should be / Ariel Gore -- Giving life to the people: an indigenous ideology of motherhood / Kim Anderson -- Resisting, but not too much: interrogating the paradox of natural mothering / Chris Bobel -- Feminist mothering / Andrea O'Reilly -- Con el Palote en Una Mano y el Libro en la Otra / Larissa Mercado-L�opez -- Territorializing motherhood: motherhood and reproductive rights in nationalist sentiment and practice / Patrizia Albanese.
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Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
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