Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse

by Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton; Powell, Pegeen Reichert

• ISBN13: 9781438432243
• ISBN10: 1438432240
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

New directions in thinking about mothering.

Author Biography

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Pegeen Reichert Powell is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Delivering Mothering Studies	p. 1
Feminist Interventions in Public Discourse
Contrapuntal Delivery and Reception of Hildegard Westerkamp's Electrovocal Performance Work on Mothering, Moments of Laughter	p. 21
The Empty Mirror No More: Mother-Daughter Relationship and Film Spectatorship in Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves	p. 41
Cyborg Mothering	p. 57
"Mommyblogging is a Radical Act": Weblog Communities and the Construction of Maternal Identities	p. 77
"The Pencilling Mamma": Public Motherhood in Alice Meynell's Essays on Children	p. 99
Picturing Mom: Mythic and Real Mothers in Children's Picture Books	p. 119
Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal Discourse
More than Talk: Single Mothers Claiming Space and Subjectivity on the University Campus	p. 145
From Postcolonial to Postpartum: Pedagogical Politics of Motherhood	p. 163
Constrained Agency: British Heterosexual Mothers of Homosexual Sons	p. 191
Writing the Script: Finding a Language for Mothering	p. 215
From Gestation to Delivery: The Embodied Activist Mothering of Cindy Sheehan and Jennifer Schumaker	p. 231
Political Motherhood in the United States and Argentina	p. 253
Epilogue: Power in a Movement	p. 279
List of Contributors	p. 293
Index	p. 301
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