... mixed-race identity motherhood and writer daughter of Jewish immigrant Spanish Civil War family differences and similarities ...

... to understand the layers, sometimes conflicting, always enriching of her own biological, ethnic, and chosen cultural identities: “some color with no precise name.” mixed-race identity motherhood and writer daughter of Jewish immigrant Spanish Civil War family differences and similarities ...

... This piece surveys second wave feminist writing about motherhood from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique to the mostly pronatalist texts of the 1980s, with key stops along the way to discuss turning points like Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex, Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born, and Sara...

... Chapter 3 explores and deconstructs the concept of whiteness through close readings of memoir and fiction by African American writers, interwoven with stories of the writer’s family life with her husband and two growing sons. The case of the Central Park Jogger, in which a group of black boys...

... discourse allowed. The two pieces here about Angela Carter, including reviews and an interview, also were meant to point to transgressive and radical alternatives. This great feminist writer was taking apart sexual mores by altering all the old scripts. Freud Dorothy Dinnerstein sexism oppression...