Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 330 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783031089114
Content:
Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history
Note:
Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)
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Chapter 1: The "persistent rebels" of Maternal ModernismChapter: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New MotherhoodsChapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: "the terra incognita of herself"Chapter 4: "The 'momentousness' of motherhood": Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist ReviewChapter 5: "The Title Role of 'Mother'": Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay MagazineChapter 6: "Freedom and childbearing": Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar EraChapter 7: "A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman": Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta's London NarrativesChapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031089107
Language:
English
