Women Writing Childbirth: Modern Discourses of Motherhood - Rilegato

Cosslett, Tess

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719043239 ISBN 13: 9780719043239

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view ourselves. The current debates about "natural" childbirth as advocated by Sheila Kitzinger, Grantly Read Dick and others, are examined alongside key literary works by writers such as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon and Toni Morrison. Cosslett's case for a re-evaluation of motherhood in today's society aims to present a challenge as much to feminists themselves as to the medical and scientific world.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0719043239
• ISBN 13: 9780719043239
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192