Mothers in children's and young adult literature : from the eighteenth century to postfeminism / edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats.
Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, editor.; Coats, Karen, 1963- editor.
2016
PR990 .M69 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Mothers in children's and young adult literature : from the eighteenth century to postfeminism / edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats.
ISBN 9781496806994 (hardcover)
1496806999 (hardcover)
9781496818430 (paperback)
1496818431 (paperback)
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Language English
Description xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR990 .M69 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9/9282
Summary "Living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or merrily adequate, the figure of the mother bears enormous freight across a child's emotional and intellectual life. Given the vital role literary mothers play in books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been paid to the representation of mothers outside of fairy tales and beyond studies of gender stereotypes. This collection of thirteen essays begins to fill a critical gap by bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives by a rich mix of senior scholars and new voices"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, editor.
Coats, Karen, 1963- editor.
Series Children's Literature Association series.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Introduction: Mothers wanted / Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats
PART I. Historical legacies: maternal instruction and delight. Chapter 1. Barbauld and the body-part game: maternal pedagogy in the long Eighteenth century / Donelle Ruwe
Chapter 2. Juliana Ewing's Six to Sixteen: realizing and rewriting maternal legacy / Koeun Kim
Chapter 3. The romance of othermothering in Nineteenth-century Backfisch books / Julie Pfeiffer
PART II. Mothering in modernity: shifting culture sand subjectivities. Chapter 4. The women who sent their children away: mothers in Kindertransport fiction / Adrienne Kertzer
Chapter 5. Minority mama: rejecting the mainstream mothering model / Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore
Chapter 6. Cultural-historical activity theory and the expansive cycle of mothering while Black / Lauren Causey and Karen Coats
Chapter 7. "The hills were in her bones": living in the blend of mothers and environments / Anna Katrina Gutierrez
PART III. The Mother-child bond: fantasy and desire for the real. Chapter 8. Animal mothers and animal babies in picture books / Robin Calland
Chapter 9. A daughter's sacrifice: saving the 'Good-enough mother; from the Good Mother fantasy / Alexandra Kotanko
Chapter 10. "The mother was the mother, even when she wasn't": maternal care ethics and children's fantasy / Mary Jeanette Moran
PART IV. Performing postfeminist motherhood. Chapter 11. "I would never be strong enough" Sarah Dessen's postfeminist mothers / Sara K. Day
Chapter 12. Abandoning Mothers / Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Chapter 13. "A mom shaped hole": psychoanalysis and the dystopian maternal / Jennifer Mitchell.

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