White feminists and contemporary maternity
Subtitle: purging matrophobia
By: D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230608634
Description: "This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one's mother or of motherhood but of becoming one's mother - in past and present white Feminist analyses of motherhood/mothering. By tracing white second wave Feminism's strategic choice to organize first as sisters then as daughters, O'Brien Hallstein argues that matrophobia became embedded in past and continues to linger in contemporary feminist analyses. This important work concludes that matrophobia can be reduced and eliminated by reorienting analyses to mutual responsiveness between sisters and daughters, second and third wave feminists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: White second wave feminisms and rich : historic feminist matrophobia; title: From ongoing silence to popular writers' matrophobia; title: Sisters, daughters, and feminist maternal scholars : contemporary matrophobia; title: What's wrong with a little lingering matrophobia? : rhetorical consequences in contemporary analyses; title: Purging matrophobia : theorizing a matrophobic-free feminist subject position on contemporary maternity.