Maternal Impressions
Subtitle: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801440359
Subjects: Birth; History of specific subjects; Literary studies: general; Pregnancy & Childbirth; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Literary Criticism; Social aspects; Pregnancy in literature; European - Italian; Feminist; Maternal-fetal exchange; Pregnancy; Psychological aspects
First sentence: "Recovering mothers' voices in the rites of passage of pregnancy and childbirth is a formidable task at best, and at worst, a hazardous, volatile venture" (Miller-McLemore, 138).
Description: In an unusual combination of reflection, autobiography, theory and criticism, Cristina Mazzoni looks at childbirth and early maternity from the perspective of an academic mother with three young children.