Scholars of literature and the social sciences look beyond the experience paradigm of motherhood to motherhood as an intellectual and political practice and institution. Understanding
motherhood as both a cultural and personal construction, they argue, requires a profound rethinking of connections between self and world, experience and ideology. Their topics include the
validation stories of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances, maternal subjectivities in midlife transition from a heterosexual to a lesbian identity, motherhood and slavehood in Harriet
Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and a Kristevan reading of Anne Enright's memoir Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses.
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