Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism /
Siegel, Kristi, 1951-
Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel. - x, 195 pages ; 24 cm. - American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ; v. 6 . - American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; v. 58. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
Daughter's discourse -- Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.
082043678X 9780820436784
98050407
Women's studies--Biographical methods
Autobiography--Women authors
Mothers in literature
Motherhood in literature
HQ1185 / .S54 1999
305.4092
Women's autobiographies, culture, feminism / Kristi Siegel. - x, 195 pages ; 24 cm. - American university studies XXVII : Feminist studies ; v. 6 . - American university studies. Series XXVII, Feminist studies ; v. 58. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and index.
Daughter's discourse -- Site of motherhood -- Situating women's autobiography -- Tracing women's autobiographical theory -- Autobiographical man/the autobiographical woman -- Body among minds -- Creating the mind/body split: Simone de Beauvoir and motherhood -- Mind of one's own: Memoirs of a dutiful daughter -- Her mother/her self: A very easy death -- Mother as spectacle: erotic surfaces -- Mothers, daughters, and desire -- Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood: the mother as lack -- Annie Dillard's An American childhood mothers, daughters, and bodies: culturally trapped, beautifully wrapped -- Mother speaks: a really bloody show -- Order of things and mothers -- Mom's best sellers: the housebroken, domesticated Gothics of Betty MacDonald, Shirley Jackson, and Erma Bombeck -- Strategies of transcendence: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maxine Hong Kingston -- Making room for mommy: the Tranche de vie autobiographies of contemporary mothers -- Conclusion: mother, body and metaphor -- Site of motherhood revisited -- Dis-location of maternal space -- Economy of Écriture féminine -- Epilogue: re-membering, re-mothering the postmodern body -- Mothering as disease -- Re-organizing the body -- Mothering as metaphor.
082043678X 9780820436784
98050407
Women's studies--Biographical methods
Autobiography--Women authors
Mothers in literature
Motherhood in literature
HQ1185 / .S54 1999
305.4092