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Three Murderous Mothers
Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born and Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
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Motherhood as Institution
- The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be “Of Woman Born” 27
- Of Party-State Born 45
- Murderous Mothers 59
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Mothering as Experience
- “We Have Mama but No Papa” 75
- Mother as Transformer 89
- Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born 103
- Feminist Mothers 125
- Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth 137
- Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children 159
- The Broken Shovel 175
-
Narrating Maternity
- Adrienne Rich’s “Clearing in the Imagination” 195
- A “Sense of Drift” 209
- Beginning with “I” 223
- Contributors 241
- Index 245
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
-
Motherhood as Institution
- The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be “Of Woman Born” 27
- Of Party-State Born 45
- Murderous Mothers 59
-
Mothering as Experience
- “We Have Mama but No Papa” 75
- Mother as Transformer 89
- Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born 103
- Feminist Mothers 125
- Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth 137
- Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children 159
- The Broken Shovel 175
-
Narrating Maternity
- Adrienne Rich’s “Clearing in the Imagination” 195
- A “Sense of Drift” 209
- Beginning with “I” 223
- Contributors 241
- Index 245