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02607aam a2200325 i 4500 001 41AEEDFEB4A811ECBDCF981B5BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220405011336 008 201202s2021 onc b 000 0 eng 020 $a 9781772583335 020 $a 1772583332 035 $a (OCoLC)1225067277 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d CDN $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a HQ759 M66x 2021 055 0 $a HQ759 M66 2021 245 00 $a Monstrous mothers : $b troubling tropes / $c edited by Abigail L. Palko and Andrea O'Reilly. 263 $a 202108 264 1 $a Bradford, Ontario : $b Demeter Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 283 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Motherhood in popular culture. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93005627 650 0 $a Women in popular culture. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147598 700 1 $a Palko, Abigail L., $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012093399 $e editor. 700 1 $a O'Reilly, Andrea, $d 1961- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98084342 $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205013103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41AEEDFEB4A811ECBDCF981B5BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search