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Title:

Mother reader : essential writings on motherhood / edited by Moyra Davey.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Seven Stories Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xix, 356 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Motherhood--Fiction.
American prose literature--Women authors.
Women and literature--English-speaking countries.
American prose literature--20th century.
English prose literature--Women authors.
English prose literature--20th century.
Women authors, American--Biography.
Women authors, English--Biography.
Mother and child--Fiction.
Mothers--Fiction.
Mother and child.
Motherhood.
Mothers.

Other Authors:

Davey, Moyra.

Contents:

Essays, memoirs, essays: Excerpt from: Under my skin: vol. 1 of My autobiography / Doris Lessing -- Excerpt from: On the side of the angels / Elizabeth Smart -- Excerpt from: The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath -- Excerpt from: On being a grandmother / Margaret Mead -- Feminism and motherhood / Susan Griffin -- Documentation IV: Transitional objects, diary and diagram; and Experimentum mentis IV: On feminity / Mary Kelly -- Excerpt from: The mother knot / Jane Lazare -- Anger and tenderness / Adrienne Rich -- A writer because of, not in spite of, her children / Alice Walker -- Writer-mother, the fundamental situation / Tillie Olsen -- Writing and motherhood / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- One child of one's own: a meaningful digression within the work(s / Alice Walker -- A wild surmise: motherhood and poetry / Alicia Ostricker -- The fisherwoman's daughter / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Talking about mothers / Sara Ruddick --
Excerpt from: the M/E/A/N/I/N/G/ forum: On motherhood, art and apple pie / Susan Bee, Mira Schor, Myrel Chernick, Dena Shottenkirk, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Martha Wilson, Barbara Zucker -- Novels and navels / Nancy Huston -- A little bit of loss / Ellen McMahon -- The case against babies / Joy Williams -- Beginning / Mona Simpson -- For Molly entering college / Vivian Montgomery -- A woman's prerogative / Mary Saitskill. Stories: I stand here ironing / Tillie Olson -- A subject of childhood / Grace Paley -- Good housekeeping / Rosellen Brown -- Learning the rules -- My death / Lynda chor -- Giving birth / Margaret Atwood -- Excerpt from: A frozen woman / Annie Ernaux -- Excerpt from: Beloved / Toni Morrison -- The old dictionary / Lydia Davis.

ISBN:

9781583220726
1583220720

LCCN:

00050954

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)