Mother Reader
Essential Literature on Motherhood
Published on 1. July 2010
356 pages
978-1-60980-102-1 (ISBN)
Description
The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe first-hand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.
Many of the writers articulate difficult and socially unsanctioned maternal anger and ambivalence. In Mother Reader, motherhood is scrutinized for all its painful and illuminating subtleties, and addressed with unconventional wisdom and candor. What emerges is a sense of a community of writers speaking to and about each other out of a common experience, and a compilation of extraordinary literature never before assembled in a single volume.
Many of the writers articulate difficult and socially unsanctioned maternal anger and ambivalence. In Mother Reader, motherhood is scrutinized for all its painful and illuminating subtleties, and addressed with unconventional wisdom and candor. What emerges is a sense of a community of writers speaking to and about each other out of a common experience, and a compilation of extraordinary literature never before assembled in a single volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Reflowable
File size
1,21 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60980-102-1 (9781609801021)
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MOYRA DAVEY is a photographer whose work has appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, Documents, and The New York Times. Davey has exhibited her work widely in the U.S. and Canada, as well as overseas, and is represented by American Fine Arts Co. in New York.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- MOYRA DAVEY
- JOURNALS, MEMOIRS, ESSAYS
- DORIS LESSING - EXCERPT FROMUnder My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949(1994)
- ELIZABETH SMART - EXCERPT FROM On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of ...
- June 28-July 4, 1944
- NOTES
- SYLVIA PLATH - EXCERPT FROM The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (1957-62)
- MARGARET MEAD - Excerpt from "On Being a Grandmother" FROM Blackberry Winter: ...
- SUSAN GRIFFIN - "Feminism and Motherhood" (1974)
- MARY KELLY - EXCERPT FROM Post-Partum Document
- JANE LAZARRE - EXCERPT FROM The Mother Knot (1976)
- ADRIENNE RICH - "Anger and Tenderness" FROM Of Woman Born Motherhood as ...
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- NOTES
- ALICE WALKER - "A Writer Because of, Not in Spite of, Her Children" (1976)
- TILLIE OLSEN - "Writer-Mothers: The Fundamental Situation" FROM Silences (1978)
- SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN - "Writing and Motherhood" (1979)
- Mothers/Writing: The Psychoanalytic Projection
- Writing and Motherhood: As Mothers See It
- Writing and Motherhood: The Mother's Fictions
- NOTES
- ALICE WALKER - "One Child of One's Own: A Meaningful Digression within the ...
- NOTES
- ALICIA OSTRIKER - "A Wild Surmise: Motherhood and Poetry" (1983)
- URSULA K. LE GUIN - "The Fisherwoman's Daughter" (1988)
- NOTES
- SARA RUDDICK - "Talking About 'Mothers'" FROM Maternal Thinking: Toward a ...
- Idealization and Maternal Power
- NOTES
- SUSAN BEE, MIRA SCHOR, MYREL CHERNICK, DENA SHOTTENKIRK, JOAN SNYDER, ELKE ...
- Myrel Chernick
- Dena Shottenkirk
- Joan Snyder
- Elke Solomon
- Martha Wilson
- Barbara Zucker
- NANCY HUSTON - "Novels and Navels" (1995)
- NOTES
- ELLEN MCMAHON - "A Little Bit of Loss" (1996-2000)
- Preface
- JOY WILLIAMS - "The Case Against Babies" (1996)
- MONA SIMPSON - "Beginning" (1997)
- JOAN SNYDER - "For Molly Entering College (August, 1997)" (1997)
- VIVIAN MONTGOMERY - "Notes on Early Motherhood" (1998)
- 1. The Wrong Element
- 2. Taking Possession
- 3. Van Gogh's Room
- 4. Look, Mama, I Can See Myself
- MARY GAITSKILL - "A Woman's Prerogative" (1999)
- STORIES
- TILLIE OLSEN - "I Stand Here Ironing" (1953-54)
- GRACE PALEY - "A Subject of Childhood" (1956)
- ROSELLEN BROWN - "Good Housekeeping," (1973)
- BUCHI EMECHETA - "Learning the Rules," FROM Second Class Citizen (1974)
- LYNDA SCHOR - "My Death" (1975)
- MARGARET ATWOOD - "Giving Birth" (1977)
- ANNIE ERNAUX - FROM A Frozen Woman (1981)
- TONI MORRISON - FROM Beloved (1987)
- LYDIA DAVIS - "The Old Dictionary" (1999)
- PERMISSIONS
- Copyright Page
