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White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity

Purging Matrophobia

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  1. D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 1-24

  3. White Second Wave Feminisms and Rich: Historic Feminist Matrophobia

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 25-45

  4. From Ongoing Silence to Popular Writers’ Matrophobia

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 47-73

  5. Sisters, Daughters, and Feminist Maternal Scholars: Contemporary Matrophobia

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 75-106

  6. What’s Wrong with a Little Lingering Matrophobia?: Rhetorical Consequences in Contemporary Analyses

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 107-129

  7. Purging Matrophobia: Theorizing a Matrophobic-Free Feminist Subject Position on Contemporary Maternity

    • D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
    Pages 131-159

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 161-192
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This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one s mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering. By tracing white second wave feminism s strategic choice to organize first as sisters then as daughters, O Brien Hallstein argues matrophobia became embedded in past and continues to linger in contemporary feminist analyses. As a result, contemporary analyses reveal crucially important but limited understandings of contemporary motherhood and mothering. This important work concludes that matrophobia can be reduced and eliminated by reorienting analyses to mutual responsiveness between sisters and daughters, second and third wave feminists.

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D. LYNN O'BRIEN HALLSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Boston University, College of General Studies, USA.

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