Maternal modernism : narrating new mothers / Elizabeth Podnieks.
Podnieks, Elizabeth, 1964- author.
2022
PR871
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Title Maternal modernism : narrating new mothers / Elizabeth Podnieks.
Author Podnieks, Elizabeth, 1964- author.
ISBN 9783031089114 (electronic bk.)
3031089111 (electronic bk.)
3031089103
9783031089107
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08911-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-08911-4 doi
Call Number PR871
Dewey Decimal Classification 823.80935252
Summary Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siecle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history. Elizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her publications include, among others, Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anais Nin; the critical edition Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman; and the edited collection Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture.
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MATERNAL MODERNISM.
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Chapter 1: The "persistent rebels" of Maternal Modernism
Chapter 2: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods
Chapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: the terra incognita of herself
Chapter 4: The momentousness of motherhood : Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review
Chapter 5: The Title Role of Mother : Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine
Chapter 6: Freedom and childbearing : Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar Era
Chapter 7: A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman : Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emechetas London Narratives
Chapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century. .

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