Mothers and Daughters: Connection, Empowerment, and Transformation

Book Overview

In 1976, Adrienne Rich wrote in Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution that "the cathexis between mother and daughter-essential, distorted, misused-is the great unwritten story." In the quarter century since Rich wrote those words, the topic of mothers and daughters has emerged as a salient issue in feminist scholarship.
Using women's writing, film, feminist theory, and personal experience, contributors to Mothers and Daughters explore how the mother/daughter relationship is represented and experienced as a site of empowerment. This volume will offer readers an important and welcome chapter in the story of the complex relationship that is a part of nearly every woman's life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847694879
• ISBN13: 9780847694877
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 0.7" x 5.9"