From the "Personal to the Political" seeks to analyze the autobiographical perspective of mothering and motherhood not purely as their inner, emotional and private narratives. The collection aims at evidentiating how autobiographical writing gives voice to the historically determined experience of mothering and makes visible the importance of mothers as resilient and political agents. The volume is divided into two sections. The first focuses on what may be termed 'autobiographical theory'. The contributors in this section use their life stories to theorize upon a social maternal perspective such as that as single mothers, mothers of children with disabilities, mothers of older children, and mothers of bi-racial children. The focus of the second section is on autobiographical narratives and includes readings of memoirs, slave narratives, poetry, and fiction. The essays in this volume position autobiography, in both theory and fiction, as a profoundly cultural and political text that makes social change possible
Writing as a practice of resistance: motherhood, identity, and representation
págs. 37-49
Narrating the (lone) maternal subject: the validation stories of "ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances"
págs. 50-70
White mothers of chinese daughters: real mothers of real children
págs. 71-85
"Your shopping cart is empty": social texts of single motherhood and the discomforts of discourse
págs. 86-100
The paradox of separation and dependency: a mother's story
págs. 101-113
"My mum's a dyke": maternal subjectivities in midlife transition from a heterosexual to a lesbian identity
págs. 114-123
págs. 124-139
Maternal fetters: motherhood and slavehood in Harriet Jacob's "Incidents in the life of a slave girl"
págs. 143-155
The dialogics of the sexual-maternal: multiple births in Gilman and Le Sueur
págs. 156-169
págs. 170-182
Implicated in a color change: darkening the picture of Jane Lazarre's maternal transracial memoir
págs. 183-194
Coalescence in evolution: queer familia in Cherríe Moraga's "Waiting in the wings"
págs. 195-209
Babies and boundaries: mother-speaking in Rachel Cusk's "A life's work"
Celia Shiffer
págs. 210-224
Maternal subjectivity: a kristevan reading of Anne Enright's memoir, "Making babies : strumbling into motherhood"
págs. 225-237
The motherhood memoir and the "new momism": biting the hand that feeds you
págs. 238-248
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