Between Mothers and Daughters

by Koppelman, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781558614598
• ISBN10: 1558614591
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Feminist Pr

Summary

In this moving and poignant collection of short stories by a broad and vibrant group of American women writers, mothers and daughters describe their conflicts and consolations, their trusts and mistrusts, their loves and hates. In some stories, a mother sacrifices and struggles in order to provide her daughter with the opportunities she herself had been denied. In others, mothers and daughters share a renewed awareness of women's dependence on one another for survival. This multicultural collection of short stories written between the 1840s and the 1990s explores an ancient relationship with fresh vision and insight. Utilising a range of short story genres and incorporating diverse perspectives, these stories explore the maternal bonds between women and investigate the practice of family, exposing the complicated, bittersweet truths of women's intergenerational relationships.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction to Original Edition	xv
Introduction to Expanded Edition	xli
Annie Gray: A Tale 1848	1	(12)
Caroline W. Healey Dall
A Marriage of Persuasion 1857	13	(10)
Susan Pettigru King Bowen
Old Mother Goose 1873	23	(20)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The Way of Peace 1898	43	(18)
Alice Brown
Old Woman Magoun 1905	61	(22)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Oats for the Woman 1917	83	(30)
Fannie Hurst
The Fire 1917	113	(16)
Helen Rose Hull
Mrs. Gladfelter's Revolt 1923	129	(12)
Helen Reimensnyder Martin
Mother to Dinner 1935	141	(20)
Tess Slesinger
Seventeen Syllables 1949	161	(16)
Hisaye Yamamoto
I Stand Here Ironing 1956	177	(12)
Tillie Olsen
Recuerdo 1963	189	(8)
Guadalupe Valdes
The Women Men Don't See 1973	197	(32)
James Tiptree, Jr.
The Lawd Don't Like Ugly 1974	229	(21)
Sherley Anne Williams
Autobiography of My Mother 1975	250	(12)
Joanna Russ
``Tell The Truth...'' 1975	262	(8)
Nicholasa Mohr
High Heels 1980	270	(5)
Arny Christine Straayer
A Birthday Remembered 1980	275	(8)
Ann Allen Shockley
Her Choice 1981	283	(7)
Alma Luz Villanueva
A Long Story 1985	290	(9)
Beth Brant
Noises 1985	299	(12)
Jane Bradley
Hair-Raising 1988	311	(12)
Andrea Benton Rushing
Home 1993	323	(4)
Preety Kalra
Anna's Archive 2002	327
Merrill Joan Gerber