21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence
Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: ‘An Exquisite Suffering’
- 2. Contextualizing Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism
- 3. 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother
- 4. Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body
- 5. The Body in Extremis: Vocalizing Maternal Corporeality
- 6. Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience
- 7. “Strange and Wild”: Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence