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21st-century narratives of maternal ambivalence

Title
  1. 21st-century narratives of maternal ambivalence / Rachel Williamson.
Published by
  1. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
Author
  1. Williamson, Rachel

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Description
  1. ix, 237 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. "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 subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother's capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap." --
Series statement
  1. Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender
Uniform title
  1. Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
Alternative title
  1. Twenty-first-century narratives of maternal ambivalence
Subject
  1. 2000-2099
  2. Motherhood in literature
  3. Motherhood in popular culture
  4. Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism
  5. Popular culture > History > 21st century
  6. Literature, Modern
  7. Popular culture
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Call number
  1. JFD 23-2178
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Williamson, Rachel, author.
Title
  1. 21st-century narratives of maternal ambivalence / Rachel Williamson.
Publisher
  1. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender
  2. Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological term
  1. 2000-2099
Other form:
  1. ebook version : 9783031393518
ISBN
  1. 9783031393501 hardcover
  2. 3031393503 hardcover
  3. 9783031393518 electronic book
Research call number
  1. JFD 23-2178
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