Mothers and Daughters

Complicated Connections Across Cultures
Herausgeber: Deakins, Alice H.; Sterk, Helen M.; Lockridge, Rebecca Bryant

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Produktbeschreibung

Nationally and internationally known feminist scholars frame, analyze, and explore mother-daughter bonds in this collection of essays. Cultures from around the world are mined for insights which reveal historical, generational, ethnic, political, religious, and social class differences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780761863359
• ISBN-10: 0761863354
• Artikelnr.: 40402759

Autorenporträt

Alice H. Deakins (Ph.D., Columbia University) teaches in the English Department at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. Her areas of research include gender and language, pedagogical grammar, and mothers and daughters in literature. She has served as president of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) and the International Linguistic Association (ILA). Rebecca Bryant Lockridge (Ph.D., Ohio State University) teaches in the Communication and Media Studies Department and Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine. Her research interests include the epistemology of visual communication, rhetoric of gender, and feminism and film. She is affiliated with Maine Women's Studies Consortium, American Association of University Women, and National Women's Studies Association. Helen M. Sterk (Ph.D., University of Iowa) heads the Department of Communication at Western Kentucky University. She is widely published in rhetoric and women's studies. Her most recent book is Gender, Culture and Physicality: Paradoxes and Taboos (Lexington Books, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Foreword Brinlee Kramer with Cheris Kramarae and Jana
Kramer Introduction Helen M. Sterk and Alice H. Deakins SECTION I: THE
TENACITY OF CONNECTION Chapter One: Birthing: Daughters' Transitions to
Motherhood Helen M. Sterk and Rita L. Feikema Chapter Two: Reconnections
for Life Enhancement: Daughters After Mother Loss Deborah A. O'Neil and
Susan Schick Case Chapter Three: Embodying Resistance, Enforcing Obedience:
Mother-Daughter Relationships in Recent Indo-Anglian Fiction Rajender Kaur
Chapter Four: Mothers and Daughters: Glimpses Through Time Alice H. Deakins
SECTION II: IMPEDIMENTS TO CONNECTION Chapter Five: Two of Me: Mothers and
Daughters in Connection Michelle Miller-Day Chapter Six: Mother
Care/Daughter Care: The Bridge That Is My Back Rebecca Bryant Lockridge and
Sarah Lockridge Chapter Seven: The 80hoo Generation: Rethinking Their
Mother-Daughter Relationships During Childhood in China Xue Yongling with
Mei Zhong Chapter Eight: Voices from the Andes: Jaqi Mothers and Daughters
M. J. Hardman and Shumaya Martha Bautista Hardman SECTION III: CREATING AND
MAINTAINING CONNECTIONS Chapter Nine: On the Transition from Childhood to
Womanhood: Constructing Coming of Age Rituals in U.S. American Culture
Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Alyssa C. Ballard-Reisch, and Jackie
Silviera-Sater Chapter Ten: "Pecked to Death by Ducks": Managing Dialectal
Tensions in the Mother-Adolescent Daughter Relationship Barbara Penington
Chapter Eleven: Negotiation of Attachment/Separation Tension in
Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters Who Are Pursuing Careers in
Academia Marjorie A. Jaasma, Frances Jeffries, and Keith Nainby Chapter
Twelve: An Untold Story: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through Food
Miriam Meyers Chapter Thirteen: Constructing the Grandmother-Granddaughter
Relationship through Communication: A Review of the Relevant Literature
Lynn H. Turner SECTION IV: MOTHER-DAUGHTER CONNECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
Chapter Fourteen: Mothers and Daughters in the Global Village Alice H.
Deakins Works Cited Author Biographies Index