Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and TransformationAndrea O'Reilly, Sharon Abbey In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote in Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution that Othe cathexis between mother and daughter_essential, distorted, misused_is the great unwritten story.O In the quarter century since Rich wrote those words, the topic of mothers and daughters has emerged as a salient issue in feminist scholarship. Using womenOs writing, film, feminist theory, and personal experience, contributors to Mothers and Daughters explore how the mother/daughter relationship is represented and experienced as a site of empowerment. This volume will offer readers an important and welcome chapter in the story of the complex relationship that is a part of nearly every womanOs life. |
Contents
Mothers at Work Representations of Maternal Practice in Literature | 21 |
Restorying Jewish Mothers | 37 |
Never One without the Other Empowering Readings of the MotherDaughter Relationship in Contemporary Spain | 47 |
Journeying Back to Mother Pilgrimages of Maternal Redemption in the Fiction of Michele Roberts Cath S towers | 61 |
Dismantling Patriarchal Motherhood | 75 |
Bitches with Broomsticks The Bad Mother in American Maternity Poetry | 77 |
Rewriting Cinderella Envisioning the Empowering MotherDaughter Romance | 91 |
Heterosexual and Lesbian Mothers Challenging Feminine and Masculine Concepts of Mothering | 103 |
Educated Mothers as a Tool for Change Possibilities and Constraints | 187 |
Telling Our Stories Feminist Mothers and Daughters | 201 |
Biting the Hand That Feeds You Feminism as the Bad Mother | 211 |
ConnectingDisrupting the Motherline | 223 |
Mother of Mothers Daughter of Daughters Reflections on the Motherline | 225 |
Dont Blame Mother Then and Now | 235 |
Motherline Connections across Cultures and Generations | 245 |
Constantly Negotiating Between My Mother and My Daughter | 265 |
The Mammy and the Mummy Cultural Imaginary and Interracial Coalition | 119 |
Empowering Daughters | 139 |
AfricanAmerican Feminist Thought on Motherhood the Motherline and the MotherDaughter Relationship | 141 |
Mothers as Moral Educators Teaching Language and Nurturing Souls | 159 |
The Global SelfEsteem of an AfricanAmerican Adolescent Female and Her Relationship with Her Mother | 173 |
Revisioning the Maternal Body Loving in Difference in Ngozi Onwurahs Film The Body Beautiful | 275 |
Index | 287 |
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Page 7 - Throughout this book i try to distinguish between two meanings of motherhood, one superimposed on the other: the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children: and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential - and all women — shall remain under male control.
