Book chapter
Pregnant with Meaning: A Mother’s Sojourn in the Academy
Parenting and Professing, p113
25 Jul 2005
Abstract
In Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich (1976) refers to the phenomenon of “matrophobia,” which is not fear of motherhood but rather fear of turning into one’s mother (p. 236). The dread of reproducing our mothers’ oppression is related to ambivalence about possibilities for an authentic, empowered maternal identity. For women seeking fictional models of questing mothers, Western imaginative literature provides few examples of women who can nurture themselves and their aspirations while mothering their children.
What do we think of when we think of the literature of mothers and motherhood? The mad Medea, who, following Jason’s duplicity and desertion, devours
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Details
- Title
- Pregnant with Meaning
- Creators
- Nancy Gerber
- Contributors
- Rachel Hile Bassett (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Parenting and Professing, p113
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts Therapies
- Other Identifier
- 991019312715104721