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Book Synopsis The Feminisms of Our Mothers by : Daanika Kamal
Download or read book The Feminisms of Our Mothers written by Daanika Kamal and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2024-01-20 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Some of our mothers marched the streets in the 1980s, demanding the emancipation of women. Three decades later, they accompanied their daughters to Aurat March, reflecting on past formations, present collectives and feminist futures. Some made concessions in their acceptance of traditional gender roles, forming conflictual relationships with daughters that pushed the boundaries of propriety. Some may not refer to themselves as feminist, differing from their daughters about the significance and implications of labels. Yet, the subtleties of our mothers’ adaptabilities are centred on women’s empowerment. Situated amongst these subtleties are moments of consciousness and selfdetermination that we, as daughters, navigate through, as we limn the contours of our own feminist formations.’ In this remarkable collection of essays about their mothers, women from Pakistan explore the many meanings of feminism and its varying interpretations through generations. How, they ask, do these meanings change, mould, attract and detract within and between generations? How do women bridge the cracks that emerge in these formations as they hold within them the joys, sorrows, conflicts and contradictions of their multiple feminisms?
Book Synopsis Mothers and Sons by : Andrea O'Reilly
Download or read book Mothers and Sons written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between mothers and sons has been explored for ages. From Oedipus to Al Brooks' Mother, we are fascinated by the familial bond between a mother and her son. This groundbreaking work looks at many untouched areas of the mother-son relationship including race, sexuality and ability. The contributors to this collection speak from the heart and explore how the institution of motherhood oppresses women, impedes mother-son identification and fosters sexism. The impact of the feminist movement on the mother-son relationship, which has been previously neglected in literature, is explored in-depth in Mothers and Sons _ . These deeply personal reflections includes stories of lesbian mothers identifying challenges in raising sons in our heterosexist culture as well as black mothers and sons and Jewish mothers. For all with an interest in family issues, gender issues, or a new perspective on mothering, this book is a must read.
Book Synopsis Feminist Mothering by : Andrea O'Reilly
Download or read book Feminist Mothering written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-10-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women's empowerment and social change. The contributors see "feminist mothering" as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of patriarchal motherhood that are limiting and oppressive to women. For many women, practicing feminist mothering offers a way to disrupt the transmission of sexist and patriarchal values from generation to generation. Contributors explore the ways in which women integrate activism, paid employment, nonsexist childrearing practices, and non-child-centered interests in their lives - and other caregivers into their childrens' lives - in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens by : Letty M. Russell
Download or read book Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens written by Letty M. Russell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a major contribution toward the development of a global feminist theology. The personal histories and experiences of women of African, Asian, Anglo-American, and Latin-American heritage recounted here make it possible to analyze the social and historical contexts of their Christian faith. Their insights into the lives of those who have been oppressed or excluded, in the Third World or in the United States, clear the way for understanding the partnership of men and women everywhere.
Book Synopsis In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by : Alice Walker
Download or read book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple. Includes a new letter written by the author What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color, with the poor. As a writer, Walker has always taken such people as her primary subjects, and her search for paths toward self-possession and freedom always holds out hope for the transformative power of compassion and love. Whether she’s taking on nuclear proliferation, the promise and problems of the civil rights movement, or her own creative process, Walker always brings to bear a fearless determination to tell the truth. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Book Synopsis From Motherhood to Mothering by : Andrea O'Reilly
Download or read book From Motherhood to Mothering written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.
Book Synopsis Mother of Invention by : Vanessa Reimer
Download or read book Mother of Invention written by Vanessa Reimer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us As Feminist Academics and Activists is an interdisciplinary collection that combines feminist theory with life writing to explore the diverse ways that mothers, whether or not they themselves identity as "feminist," inspire feminist consciousness in their daughters and sons. It features creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics, activists, writers and artists from different educational backgrounds, places and walks of life. While not an exclusive celebration of maternal relations, this collection provides an antidote to matrophobia and mother-blaming by critically exploring and affirming the myriad of challenges and complexities that constitute motherwork. It explores how the mothering of feminist daughters and sons intersects with issues of gender, sexuality, dis- ability, ethnicity, racialization, citizenship, religion, economic class, education, and socio-historical location. Collectively these essays explore the centrality of intergenerational matrilineal narratives in shaping feminist consciousness, they deconstruct dominant ideologies of patriarchal motherhood and womanhood, and they challenge the notion that there is a formulaic way to raise feminist daughters and sons, or a singular "correct" way to engage in feminist maternal practice.
Book Synopsis Daughters of Feminists by : Rose L. Glickman
Download or read book Daughters of Feminists written by Rose L. Glickman and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experience of women whose mothers called themselves feminists - young women directly influenced by the examples and teachings of mothers working toward equality and the transformation of the home, the workplace, and the world at large. Rose L. Glickman, a feminist historian and mother, has interviewed fifty women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five of varied ethnic backgrounds and family structures, to find out where they stand on the issues central to their mothers' feminist perspective. Their candid, thought-provoking, often surprising responses reveal the complexities behind media generalizations about the post-feminist generation. Daughters of Feminists begins by exploring the daughters' attitudes toward the word feminist itself. In subsequent chapters, each on a different topic, the daughters tell how growing up in a feminist household shaped their values, choices, and aspirations. They discuss work, family life, friendship, sexuality and femininity, self-image, public and private roles, feminism and racism. This book is an illuminating look at a diverse group of young women as they reinterpret their mothers' legacy to fit their own lives and times. It is filled with personal anecdotes that will engage mothers, daughters, and all readers concerned with the unfolding story of feminism in today's social climate.
Book Synopsis Matricentric Feminism by : Andrea O'Reilly
Download or read book Matricentric Feminism written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth—are specific to women’s role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers’ concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic of empowerment. O’Reilly terms this new mode of feminism matricentic feminism and the book explores how it is represented and experienced in theory, activism, and practice. The chapter on maternal theory examines the central theoretical concepts of maternal scholarship while the chapter on activism considers the twenty-first century motherhood movement. Feminist mothering is likewise examined as the specific practice of matricentric feminism and this chapter discusses various theories and strategies on and for maternal empowerment. Matricentric feminism is also examined in relation to the larger field of academic feminism; here O’Reilly persuasively shows how matricentric feminism has been marginalized in academic feminism and considers the reasons for such exclusion and how such may be challenged and changed.
Book Synopsis Not My Mother's Sister by : Astrid Henry
Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious generations and the emergence of new feminisms.
Download or read book Feminist Mothers written by Tuula Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mothers & Sons written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation How can feminist women raise feminist sons? How can today's mothers teach their sons to be strong but not domineering, aggressive but not controlling, opinionated but not single-minded? These and other compelling questions are answered in this groundbreaking collection of essays on the mother and son relationship. Many of the essays cover neglected terrain, including such topics as feminism, sexism, masculinity, homophobia, and racism. The contributors speak from their experiences as mothers and explore how the institution of motherhood can oppress women, impede mother-son identification, and foster sexism. The impact of the feminist movement on the mother-son relationship is explored in depth here for the first time.
Book Synopsis A Mother's Eye by : Anne Richardson Roiphe
Download or read book A Mother's Eye written by Anne Richardson Roiphe and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text evaluates the role of feminism and motherhood, declaring that there has been a silence around the subject of mothering as if it were almost embarrassing for real feminists to be concerned with themselves as mothers. Now, with growing children herself, Anne Roiphe says how motherhood became, despite my work, the landscape, the bone, the marrow of myself. A political argument, told from an intimate and personal approach, this book studies the role of both mother and father, and goes to the heart of feminist issues embedded within the experience of mothering.
Author :Maxine L. Margolis Publisher :Berkeley : University of California Press ISBN 13 :9780520049956 Total Pages :366 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (499 download)
Book Synopsis Mothers and Such by : Maxine L. Margolis
Download or read book Mothers and Such written by Maxine L. Margolis and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was motherhood barely mentioned as a discrete role in eighteenth-century sermons? And why, beginning in the 1830s, did it become the foucs of attention in domestic manuals and other forms of popular literature addressed to middle-class women? Maxine L. Margolis examines these and other questions about the changing roles of middle-class women. Her conclusion is that "we have come to think of as inevitable and biologically necessary is in great measure a consequence of our society's particularly social and economic system." She cites the influence of such variables as household versus industrial production, a manufacturing versus a service-oriented economy, the demand or lack of demand for women's labor, the economy's need for "high quality" employees, and the changing costs and benefits of rearing the middle-class children who would become those employees. This convincing analysis asserts that there are well-defined material cuases for ceontempoary attutides toward women and work, for new ideas about child rearing, for the changing nature of housework, and for the revival of feminism. -- From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists by : Vanessa Reimer
Download or read book Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Acadamics and Activists written by Vanessa Reimer and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us As Feminist Academics and Activists is an interdisciplinary collection that combines feminist theory with life writing to explore the diverse ways that mothers, whether or not they themselves identity as “feminist,” inspire feminist consciousness in their daughters and sons. It features creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics, activists, writers and artists from different educational backgrounds, places and walks of life. While not an exclusive celebration of maternal relations, this collection provides an antidote to matrophobia and mother-blaming by critically exploring and affirming the myriad of challenges and complexities that constitute motherwork. It explores how the mothering of feminist daughters and sons intersects with issues of gender, sexuality, dis- ability, ethnicity, racialization, citizenship, religion, economic class, education, and socio-historical location. Collectively these essays explore the centrality of intergenerational matrilineal narratives in shaping feminist consciousness, they deconstruct dominant ideologies of patriarchal motherhood and womanhood, and they challenge the notion that there is a formulaic way to raise feminist daughters and sons, or a singular “correct” way to engage in feminist maternal practice.
Book Synopsis In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by : Alice Walker
Download or read book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose written by Alice Walker and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shaping Our Mothers' World by : Nancy A. Walker
Download or read book Shaping Our Mothers' World written by Nancy A. Walker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
