Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-188) and index.
Contents:
Mothering as metaphor. Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.
Series:
American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ; vol. 6
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