Representations of Motherhood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300068634)

Offering new perspectives on motherhood, distinguished contributors from a variety of fields look at the conflicting positions on motherhood within the feminist movement; draw on psychoanalysis to grapple with mothers' profoundly ambivalent feelings toward their children; discuss how advances in medicine influence the meaning of motherhood; and examine how representations of mothers in art, film, literature, the social and behavioral sciences, and historical writing have affected women. "The significant contribution of this collection of essays is its repeated re-presentation of the mother as a fully bodied, real, complex person, a subject in her own right, both liberated and oppressed by the demands of birthing and rearing children."-Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Cross Currents

Author: Donna Bassin
ISBN-10: 0300068638
ISBN-13: 9780300068634
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/16/1996
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.05w x 0.92d