10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOTHERLESSNESS»
Discover the use of
motherlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
motherlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In this connection, it begins to be plain that Eve's—and the monster's—
motherlessness must have had extraordinary cultural and personal significance
for Mary Shelley. “We think back through our mothers if we are women,” wrote
Virginia ...
2
The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins
The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fiction, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood.
3
Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: ...
disruption that is the core of developmental trauma. The experience of
motherlessness, of profound helplessness, leaves the completely vulnerable
child in the throes of daily, unrelenting fear for his survival. All too often
motherlessness allows ...
4
The Maternal Voice in Victorian Fiction: Rewriting the ...
Gaskell offers the longest list of motherless heroines — Mary Barton. Margaret
Hale (who loses her mother half way through North and South'), Ruth Hinton, and
Molly Gibson — and motherlessness reaches new heights of pathos in her fiction.
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The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar in The Madwoman in the Attic, for example, see
in motherlessness the emblem of female powerlessness in nineteenth-century
society.2 Maternal absence and silence, they argue, rob the heroine of important
...
6
Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
Charity's motherlessness and lack of role models for herself as a mother have
been much commented upon.4 Yet her motherlessness extends beyond the
individual failures of her stepmother, her biological mother, and other mother
figures in ...
7
Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels
In this sense, then, homelessness serves as a metaphor for motherlessness.
Although the text's overt political agenda addresses homelessness, its implied
agenda equates motherlessness with homelessness to develop a political
implication ...
8
National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic ...
... concerning her own mother in the early pages of the book, suggesting that
these two stories concerning motherlessness, despair, and failed mourning may
be intensely interesting to Helen because they emblematize her own family's
plight.
Mitchell Robert Breitwieser, 2007
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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian ...
marriage equals the reinscription of the domain of “maternal” hegemony; the
condition of motherlessness represents a fecundity of possibilities for her future.
56 The third form of melancholic text, the narrative of opportunity, exists in close ...
45 Present wage and that before motherlessness 95 46 Impact of
motherlessness on wages, analysed according to length of motherlessness 97
47 Fathers mentioning particular deprivations 102 48 Fathers wifeless for less
than a year, ...
Victor George, Paul Wilding, 1972
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOTHERLESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
motherlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
Nell Zink's Brilliant Mislaid Is a Parody of a Satire of Race
... a series of sorrows and humiliations: sexual confusion, homophobic exclusion, disinheritance, artistic failure, motherlessness, fatherlessness, ... «Vulture, May 15»
How the wrong kind of rights harm children
Rather, this motherlessness is deliberately sought; it is viewed as a triumph of technology to be celebrated. Who can deny that the child is being ... «MercatorNet, May 15»
TELEVISION Out director Dee Rees talks 'Bessie,' Queen Latifah
... my writing inspirations—Jamaica Kincaid and Angela Davis—to help get at what I considered the core of the character: her "motherlessness.". «Windy City Times, May 15»
Should You Have a Baby on Your Own?
On the subway home that night, I wondered: Maybe if I got my finances in shape and made up for my own motherlessness by creating an ... «Cosmopolitan.com, May 15»
Children like me need a voice in gay marriage debate: Column
... that guarantees brokenness for children. Society and public policy should never encourage fatherlessness or motherlessness. USA TODAY. «USA TODAY, Apr 15»
Kathryn Flett: Why I won't be speaking to my mum on Mother's Day
... in common with all the other "motherless" women I've ever met - with whom I often "connect" long before I know about their "motherlessness" ... «New Zealand Herald, Mar 15»
Why I won't be calling my Mum on Mother's Day
... long before I know about their “motherlessness” (and most of whom are properly “motherless”) — I'm a bit brittle and brusque on the outside, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Growing Up with Gay Parents: What's the Big Deal?
Clinical experience would suggest that motherlessness, while not studied as extensively as fatherlessness, causes even greater damage to a ... «Aleteia, Dec 14»
Same-sex marriage opposition falls short
Will it lead to an “increase in the levels of fatherlessness and motherlessness among the vast majority of children”? Does the prospect of two ... «The Spokesman Review, Oct 14»
Barry Hannah and I
One of his observations about the theme of motherlessness in my books, remains for me, the most valuable thing ever said about my work. «The Millions, Oct 14»
