Women, Mothers, Subjects: New Explorations of the Maternal

ISBN-13: 9780415634830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 258 str.

Maura Sheehy

Opis

This collection offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorising about what happens to women when they become mothers. It explores how women are changed and shaped by interaction with their children and the cultural constructs about motherhood in which they are embedded.This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Writing of Mothers Maura Sheehy  Part I: Mothers in the Consulting Room  2. Giving Body to Thought: Entwinements Between Women Velleda C. Ceccoli  3. Mothers, Monsters, Mentors Adrienne Harris  4. Lost in a Fog, or "How Difficult Is This MOMMY Stuff, Anyway?" Maura Sheehy  Part II: Maternal Subjectivity  5. Oi Mother, Keep Ye' Hair On! Impossible Transformations of Maternal Subjectivity Lisa Baraitser  6. What Exactly is the Transformation of Motherhood? Commentary on Lisa Baraitser's Paper Daphne de Marneffe  7. Reply to Commentaries Lisa Baraitser  8. Mum's the Word: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and the Maternal Subject Lisa Baraitser  9. Maternal Silence Miri Rozmarin  Part III: Maternality and Writing, Creativity  10. I'm in the Milk and the Milk Is in Me: Writing from the Night Kitchen Donna Bassin  11. Mother-Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity Suzanne Juhasz  Part IV: Maternal Representation in Culture  12. "It Ain't Fittin'": Cinematic and Fantasmatic Contours of Mammy in Gone with the Wind and Beyond Maria St. John  13. What About the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy Katie Gentile  14. What About the Episiotomy? A Response to Katie Gentile's Article, "What About the Baby?" Lynne Zeavin  15. Social Trauma and Models of Ideological Analysis: Commentary on Article by Katie Gentile Lynne Layton  16. Reply to Commentaries: "What About the Baby? The New Cult of Domesticity and Media Images of Pregnancy" Katie Gentile

O autorze

Maura Sheehy is a psychotherapist in private practice in the USAand a contributor to Studies in Gender and Sexuality. A former staff and freelance writer for major national publications, she has an MA in Cultural Studies and has run a weekly support group for new mothers in Brooklyn, NY, USA.