From motherhood to mothering : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born

From Motherhood to Mothering......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction ANDREA O’REILLY......Page 12
PART ONE: Motherhood as Institution Patriarchal Power and Maternal Outrage......Page 36
1. The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be “Of Woman Born” DIANA GINN......Page 38
2. Of Party-State Born: Motherhood, Reproductive Politics, and the Chinese Nation-State SARAH E. STEVENS......Page 56
3. Murderous Mothers: Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born and Toni Morrison’s Beloved EMILY JEREMIAH......Page 70
PART TWO: Mothering as Experience: Empowerment and Resistance......Page 84
4. “We Have Mama but No Papa” Motherhood in Women-Centered Societies MARIA-BARBARA WATSON-FRANKE......Page 86
5. Mother as Transformer: Strategic Symbols of Matrilineage Recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots DANNABANG KUWABONG......Page 100
6. Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born: Motherhood Outside Institutionalized Heterosexuality KATE McCULLOUGH......Page 114
7. Feminist Mothers: Successfully Negotiating the Tension between Motherhood as “Institution” and “Experience” FIONA JOY GREEN......Page 136
8. Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth KARIN VOTH HARMAN......Page 148
9. Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children ANDREA O’REILLY......Page 170
10. The Broken Shovel: Looking Back from Postmaternity at Co-Parenting MARGARET MORGANROTH GULLETTE......Page 186
PART THREE: Narrating Maternity: Writing as a Mother......Page 204
11. Adrienne Rich’s “Clearing in the Imagination”: Of Woman Born as Literary Criticism D’ARCY RANDALL......Page 206
12. A “Sense of Drift”: Adrienne Rich’s Emergence from Mother to Poet JEANNETTE E. RILEY......Page 220
13. Beginning with “I”: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born ANN KENISTON......Page 234
Contributors......Page 252
C......Page 256
E......Page 257
H......Page 258
M......Page 259
P......Page 260
S......Page 261
Z......Page 262