Maternal Theory: Essential Readings

Introductionby Andrea O’Reilly 1Chapter 1: Introduction from Of Woman Bornby Adrienne Rich 6Chapter 2: Anger and Tendernessby Adrienne Rich 11Chapter 3: Early Psychological Development: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Genderby Nancy Chodorow 27Chapter 4: The Dialectics of Reproductionby Mary O’Brien 49 Chapter 5: In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardensby Alice Walker 88 Chapter 6: Maternal Thinkingby Sara Ruddick 96 Chapter 7: Preservative Love and Military Destruction: Some Reflections on Mothering and Peaceby Sara Ruddick 114Chapter 8: Revolutionary Parentingby bell hooks 145 Chapter 9: Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist’s Responseby Audre Lorde 157 Chapter 10: Stabat Mater by Julia Kristeva 163 Chapter 11: The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters by Baba Copper 186 Chapter 12: Lesbians Choosing Children: The Personal is Political Revisited by Nancy D. Polikoff 194Chapter 13: Women’s Mothering and Male Misogyny by Miriam M. Johnson 201Chapter 14: It’s Only Natural by Valerie Walkerdine and Helen Lucey 224Chapter 15: Unspeakable Plotsby Marianne Hirsch 237 Chapter 16: Prelude: Origins and Paradigmsby Marianne Hirsch 253 Chapter 17: Homeplace: a Site of Resistanceby bell hooks 266 Chapter 18: The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture and Black Mother-Daughter Relationships by Patricia Hill Collins 274 Chapter 19: Feminism and Motherhood: An American Readingby Ann Snitow 290 Chapter 20: Shifting the Center: Race, Class and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhoodby Patricia Hill Collins 311Chapter 21: The Myths of Motherhoodby Shari L. Thurer 331Chapter 22: Leaving Home: The Young Man’s Rite of Passageby Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum 345 Chapter 23: Negotiating Lesbian Motherhood: The Dialectics of Resistance and Accommodationby Ellen Lewin 370 Chapter 24: Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a Patriarchal Societyby Barbara Katz Rothman 390Chapter 25: Why Can’t a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?by Sharon Hays 408Chapter 26: A Sketch in Progress: Introducing the Mother Without Child by Elaine Tuttle Hansen 431Chapter 27: Faking Motherhood: The Mask Revealed by Susan Maushart 460Chapter 28: Killing the Black Bodyby Dorothy Roberts 482 Chapter 29: The Baby and the Bath Water: Disabled Women and Motherhood in Social Contextby Carol Thomas 500 Chapter 30: Does the Word Lesbian Mean Anything to You?by Katherine Arnup 520Chapter 31: Emancipated Subjectivities and the Subjugation of Mothering Practices by Mielle Chandler 529 Chapter 32: Mothering and Feminism: Essential Mothering and the Dilemma of Difference by Patrice DiQuinzio 542Chapter 33: Reimagining Adoption and Family Law by Drucilla Cornell 556Chapter 34: The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of Fantasy and Reality by Jessica Benjamin 574Chapter 35: Don’t Blame Mother: Then and Nowby Paula J. Caplan 592Chapter 36: Where We Are Nowby Ann Crittenden 601Chapter 37: The New Momism by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. Michaels 617Chapter 38: Right to Mothering: Motherhood as a Transborder Concern in the Age of Globalizationby Shu-Ju Ada Cheng 640 Chapter 39: The Globalization of Love: Transnational Adoption and Engagement with the Globalized World by Emily J. Noonan 649Chapter 40: Mother-Worship/Mother-Blame: Politics and Welfare in an Uncertain Age by Molly Ladd-Taylor 660Chapter 41: The “Problem” of Maternal Desireby Daphne de Marneffe 668Chapter 42: We Will No Longer Be Silent or Invisible: Latinas Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Elena R. Gutiérrez 683Chapter 43: The Motherhood Religionby Judith Warner 705Chapter 44: Domestic Intellectuals: Freedom and the Single Momby Jane Juffer 726Chapter 45: High Risk: Who a Mother Should Beby Ariel Gore 756Chapter 46: Giving Life to the People: An Indigenous Ideology of Motherhoodby Kim Anderson 761Chapter 47: Resisting, But Not Too Much: Interrogating the Paradox of Natural Motheringby Chris Bobel 782 Chapter 48: Feminist Motheringby Andrea O’Reilly 792 Chapter 49: Con el Palote en Una Mano y el Libro en la Otraby Larissa Mercado-López 822Chapter 50: Territorializing Motherhood: Motherhood and Reproductive Rights in Nationalist Sentiment and Practiceby Patrizia Albanese 828Copyright Acknowledgements 841