Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood presents the accounts of mothers who have suffered a major physical and/or psychically traumatic accident, and, as a consequence, their minds and bodies have been drastically changed. They live under the pressure of having discovered the alter ego of their traumatized personality, and now, distressed, cannot embrace their unconditional maternal love. Instead, they enter into a phase where they face the challenge of revealing who they are as persons before accepting or motivating themselves as mothers. The mothers presented in this volume also seem to have another thing in common: their transnational, fluid, female identity as they enter into an imaginary dialog that transcends geographical and temporal perspectives on womanhood and motherhood. This collection introduces and analyzes recurrent words that define a woman's body and mind today: fear, competition, motherhood and career rights, selfishness, ambition, destruction, distance, and identity. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantinent theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with the intention to revitalize an otherwise taken-for-granted image and role.

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Lieterature - women's studies, Lanham, Md, 2013

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Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Preface 10
Introduction 12
Chapter One: A Mother’s Loss of Her Daughter’s Face 14
Chapter Two: From Child to Mother 34
Chapter Three: Solving the “Crumbling” Mother in Nancy Drew 52
Chapter Four: Feminized and Maternal Bodies 70
Chapter Five: The Price We Pay 86
Chapter Six: Childless Motherhood 102
Chapter Seven: Dismatria 118
Chapter Eight: “I wanted to hear her called Mom” 136
Chapter Nine: Unwanted Mother, Unwanted Motherhood 150
Chapter Ten: “She Who Dwells Alone...” 168
Chapter Eleven: Writing, Mothering, and Traumatic Subjectivity in Sapphire’s Push 184
Chapter Twelve: Looking into the Mirror, Inscribing the Blank Slate 198
Chapter Thirteen: Wise Mother? Insane Mother? 214
Chapter Fourteen: Maternal Interruption 230
Chapter Fifteen: Mother-less 244
Index 258
About the Authors 260

2021-12-11