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...LISA WALSH 2001 lisa walsh is Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Southwestern University. Her first book, Subjects of Love and Desire:Readings of Maternity and Ethicity , is forthcoming from Rowman &Littlefield. She is currently at work on a new book on paternity...

.... margherita long Nakagami and the Denial of Lineage: On Maternity, Abjection, and the Japanese Outcast Class Traveling the Kii Peninsula I had trav- This sameness, womblike and maternal, eled the circuit between discrimination...

.... Wing Betsy . Minnesota : U of Minnesota P , 1986 . 1 - 62 . Dietz Mary . “ Citizenship with a Feminist Face: the Problem with Maternal Thinking .” Political Theory 13 ( 1985 ): 19 - 37 . Dinnerstein Dorothy . The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human...

... is that of the so-called refrigerator mother. The refrigerator mother is not the only bad model of maternality that midcentury psychiatry discovered, however; overstimulating mothers, called in this study “hot mothers,” were identified as equally problematic. From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond, class...

... and transforming philosophies in light of their constitutive exclusions. An example of this, explored here, is Irigaray's expansion and transformation of Merleau-Ponty's late ontology of flesh in light of its constitutive exclusion, the “maternal sojourn.” This article also asks whether rhythmic sexual difference...

... and a first lady who steadfastly refuses to step into the maternal modeling of the role. “Mother,” in this way, names the evangelical revival, the staggering rollback of women’s reproductive rights and healthcare access, both nationally and globally, as well as the federal assaults on trans people from...

..., whose writings on painting, literature, music, and other art forms bring the aesthetic to bear on her central theme of the repressed maternal. Indeed, Kristeva's treatment of aesthetics takes us directly to her reading of the repressed maternal and thereby clarifies the category of abjection so integral...

... this situation, the economic metamorphosis of reproduction heralded by surrogacy cannot be treated as an aberration, but rather requires a reconceptualization of the maternal body as a reproductive resource and, in turn, of the mother/fetus relationship. This essay attempts to develop a materialist analysis...

... in an International Frame .” In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics . New York : Routledge , 1988 . 134 - 53 . Stanton Domna C. . “ Difference on Trial: A Critique of the Maternal Metaphor in Cixous, Irigaray, and Kristeva .” The Thinking Muse: Feminism and Modern French Philosophy . Ed...

... story in this scene; there is another aspect to cleaning up the mess which privileges the body and its experiential reality, and moreover, one that significantly takes its valuation from a revaluation of the maternal. From the very beginning Roth's text keeps turning up the ghost of his dead mother...

... : Penguin , 1989 . Kahane Claire . “ Questioning the Maternal Voice .” Genders 3 ( 1988 ): 82 – 91 . Kahane Claire . “ Reply to Alicia Ostriker .” Genders 4 ( 1989 ): 130 – 35 . Kaviraj Sudipto . The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation...

... In contrast, Mrs. Oswald’s linking of herself to national history proceeds in a very determined way, one that refuses her assimilation into an idealized figure of mother as citizen. In so doing, Oswald’s maternity derails Stafford’s sense...

... the heteronormative modeling of sexual difference but also theoretically and psychically denies any politicizing or creative space to both the maternal and the filial feminine as imaginary and symbolic positions rather than entrapments in descent? Is all affect Oedipal in the last instance or are there other...

... to the father and his law. It posits maternal rule as coming before mediation or lack, which enters the world only with the advent of the patriarchy. But it also places the matriarchate outside of time, the temporality or history that is introduced by the father and his word and that entails the loss...

... that disenfranchised the mother and, by extension, the woman as a subject. 13 Yet this visual material also invites other readings. One could speak of the surging of the maternal body into view, both in the sense...

...: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in Shakespeare's Plays, Hamlet to The Tempest. New York : Routledge , 1992 . 130 - 64 . Berkin Carol R. , and Lovett Clara M. , eds. Women, War, and Revolution . New York : Holmes , 1980 . Bower Lisa C. “ ‘Mother’ in Law: Conceptions of Mother...

...: Derrida and After Ed. Krupnick Mark . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1983 . 169 - 99 . Stanton Domna C. “ Difference on Trial: A Critique of the Maternal Metaphor in Cixous, Irigaray and Kristeva .” The Poetics of Gender . Ed. Miller Nancy K. . New York : Columbia UP , 1986...

... . Williams Patricia J. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1991 . Williams Sherley Anne . Dessa Rose . New York : Berkley Books , 1987 . Wyatt Jean . “ Giving Body to the Word: The Maternal Symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved...

... maternally and viewed in its malignancy and decay (8-13). This location of the maternal body as site of nauseous enjoyment is another face of the phallus, another face of the object cause of desire that is the objet a, and another face of that "leftover of enjoyment beyond meaning, resisting symbolization...

...) Later, this suggestion of historical determinations is elaborated and corroborated in Mrs. Slade’s version of maternal Roman history: “I was just thinking,” she said slowly, “what different things Rome...