| Description |
vi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue. What is "Feminist Mothering?" / Maureen T. Reddy, Martha Roth and Amy Sheldon -- Section I. Discovering ourselves: Mother and child: the erotic bond (Lynda Marín); Once more out of darkness (Alicia Ostriker); Sylvia (Nicole Hollander); Two moms, two kids, and a dog (Sarah Bruckner); The moment the two worlds meet (Sharon Olds); Beneath the skin (Martha Roth); A feminist moment (Kimiko Hahn); For E (Kimiko Hahn); Maternal boundaries; or, Who gets "the lap"? (Shirley Nelson Garner); Counting cost (Akasha Hull) -- Section II. Discoveries Through Our Children: Race-ing love (Maureen T. Reddy); Birthing death (Linda P. Aaker); Jessica's poems (Madelon Sprengnether); "Kings are royaler than queens" (Amy Sheldon); Shelter (Linda Hogan); Sylvia (Nicole Hollander); Black and blue (Jane Lazarre); Motherhood: the first step on the road to recovery (Sheila Fay Braithwaite); Three sonnets for Iva (Marilyn Hacker); Childbirth with fear (Kathryn S. March) -- Section III |
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The Politics of Mothering: Abortion is amotherhood issue (Judith Arcana); Cambodia (Alicia Ostriker); The best mom in the world (Sherry Lee); Mothering ... "without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (Barbara Schapiro); Statement to the course (Martha Boesing); Reflections on motherhood (Greta Hofmann Nemiroff); All the women caught in flaring light (Minnie Bruce Pratt); Sylvia (Nicole Hollander) -- Section IV. Continuity with Our Own Mothers: Making do (Diane McPherson); Night song for the journey: a self-critical prelude to feminist mothering (Rose Stone); Blood chant (Linnea Johnson); The reconstruction (Judy Remington); Mother (Jewelle L. Gomez); Beginning with Gussie (Maxine Kumin); On weaning in America (Genny Lim); Mother underground (Molly Hite); Anti-Demeter (The more I give the more your steal/the more you give the more I need) (Carolee Schneemann); Missing (Rita Dove); Persephone, falling (Rita Dove); Persephone underground (Rita Dove); The mother journey (Molly Collins Layton) -- Epilogue |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors.
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Feminism -- Literary collections.
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Mother and child -- Literary collections.
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Motherhood -- Literary collections.
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| Author |
Reddy, Maureen T.
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Roth, Martha.
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Sheldon, Amy, 1942-
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| LC no. |
94018338 |
| ISBN |
1883523036 (paperback) |
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1883523044 |
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