Mother-texts
Subtitle: narratives and counter-narratives
By: edited by Marie Porter and Julie Kelso
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781443823326
Subjects: Motherhood; Narration (Rhetoric); Feminist theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost children and imaginary mothers in Sonya Hartnett's Of a boy  -- Vivienne Muller; title: Embroidering the tale : reading Luce Irigaray reading Snow White  -- Wendy Green; title: Psychoanalysing motherhood as transience in Okamoto Kanoko's Sushi  -- Kyoko Taniguchi; title: Origination and the holy mark of the motherless body : Pilate's absent navel in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon  -- Julie Kelso; title: Finnish women's autobiographies : responses to the call for nationalist agency  -- Ritva Nätkin; title: Writing Daughter : writing mother  -- Deborah Jordan; title: Mothers in the ancient Indian pantheon : diverse representations of goddesses in the Rgveda  -- Victoria Grace; title: The presentation of motherhood in the Law code of Manu  -- Tamara Ditrich; title: Media portrayals of motherhood in parenting magazines in contemporary Japan  -- Tomoko Shimoda; title: Sex in the seventies : 1970s maternal advice manuals on breastfeeding  -- Alison Bartlett; title: "The only really worthwhile role for women"? : monitoring media representations of fertility and motherhood in pronatalist Australia  -- Marilyn Anderson; title: Narratives about work from early mothering talk  -- Lisa Raith; title: Becoming a mother : narratives of homeless young mothers and wellbeing  -- Deborah Keys; title: Prenatal expectations : effects on the experiences of motherhood and the mothering role  -- Tammy Rendina and Pranee Liamputtong; title: Detecting the less than perfect : how amniocentesis is changing attitudes to mothering a child with a disability  -- Fiona Place; title: With love : a celebratory counter narrative of (dis?)-ability  -- Marie Porter; title: Listening for, and to, the voices in a mother's story : using the "listening guide" in narrative research -- Eleanor Milligan and Jenny Jones