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Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood
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2013
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Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood presents the accounts of mothers who have suffered a major physical and/or psychically traumatic accident, and, as a consequence, their minds and bodies have been drastically changed. They live under the pressure of having discovered the alter ego of their traumatized personality, and now, distressed, cannot embrace their unconditional maternal love. Instead, they enter into a phase where they face the challenge of revealing who they are as persons before accepting or motivating themselves as mothers. The mothers presented in this volume also seem to have another thing in common: their transnational, fluid, female identity as they enter into an imaginary dialog that transcends geographical and temporal perspectives on womanhood and motherhood. This collection introduces and analyzes recurrent words that define a woman's body and mind today: fear, competition, motherhood and career rights, selfishness, ambition, destruction, distance, and identity. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantinent theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with the intention to revitalize an otherwise taken-for-granted image and role.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8317-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8318-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
251
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: A Mother’s Loss of Her Daughter’s Face No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter Two: From Child to Mother No access Pages 21 - 38
Chapter Three: Solving the “Crumbling” Mother in Nancy Drew No access Pages 39 - 56
Chapter Four: Feminized and Maternal Bodies No access Pages 57 - 72
Chapter Five: The Price We Pay No access Pages 73 - 88
Chapter Six: Childless Motherhood No access Pages 89 - 104
Chapter Seven: Dismatria No access Pages 105 - 122
Chapter Eight: “I wanted to hear her called Mom” No access Pages 123 - 136
