Mothers Without Their Children
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Author | : Charlotte Beyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
ISBN-10 | : 1772582212 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781772582215 |
Rating | : 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Mothers Without Their Children by : Charlotte Beyer
Book excerpt: Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, representations, creative manifestations, and embodiments of mothers without their children. In her 1997 book, entitled Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood, the critic Elaine Tuttle Hansen urged for critical and feminist engagement with what she described as 'the bord.