The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically
it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these …

This feminist exploration of mothers, mothering, and motherhood combines evaluations of
empirical and theoretical work with personal narratives by mothers or caregivers. While the …

This article surveys scholarship on motherhood and mothering published over the past
decade. Academic scholars and writer-activists have written about mothers and mothering in …

The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and
enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published …

Motherhood is under review. What counts as a 'good mother'is receiving attention in both
popular and academic contexts (Arendell, 2000; Hays, 1996). The mothers we spoke with …

This article traces the development of recentfeminist thinking about maternity, identzfying
within it a sh ftfiom essentialism to poststructuralism, expressed as a change in …

Inmai NS TREAM psychology, medicine, sociology, and literary study, mothering has usually
been considered from the perspective of the developing child, a child usually designated as …

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce
auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the …

The 2nd edition includes a new preface that considers how matricentric feminism in
positioning mothering as a verb affords a gender-neutral understanding of motherwork and …

While Mothers, mothering and motherhood surround us daily the distinction between the
institution of motherhood and mothering (Adrienne Rich), feminist understandings of the …