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Illegitimate Mothers: Discursive Renegotiation of the Unlawful, the Misbegotten, and the Misbehaving
Dr. Teresa WinterhalterArmstrong Atlantic State UniversityDr. Beth HowellsArmstrong Atlantic State UniversityMr. Benjamin WinterhalterBoston College Law School
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“Mothers don’t write, they are written.”
Helene Deutsch
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“Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth didst by my side remain,Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad, exposed to public view…”
Anne Bradstreetfrom “The Author to Her Bookcirca 1687
“…my hideous progeny…”Mary Shelleyfrom “The Preface” to Frankenstein1837 edition
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Caravaggio, The Sacrifice of Isaac, 1603Oil on canvas, 41 x 53
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Rafaello Sanzio, The Judgment of Solomon, 1518
Fresco, The Vatican
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She put her head in her hands. Then she reached in and, focusing as well as she could with one hand, the baby slapping at her through the bars, wheezing with laughter, she found one cool bare thigh, the rosy tightness of it, and pinched it with three fingers, kept pinching hard, till she got that angry uvula again, and a good bit of very wet tongue. Through the magnifier it was spiny as some plant, some sponge maybe, under the sea.
Rosellen Brown
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Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat: The Complicated
Community of “Mommy Blogs”
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
But then I hear the voices of my children…
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
And I’m paper torn in half,
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Kate Daniels, “In My Office at Bennington”
the poem that didn’t work,the wrong words, sour sounds, ruptured rhythms, the confusionas to what was meant, what I actuallydesired besides those three small facesraised to my open window, callingmy name over and over, Mama?
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NYT, Review of Books, AO Scott 2006
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Mommy Blogs
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Infertility
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Boredom/Confessional
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Graphic Irreverance
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Humor/Survival of Child Abuse
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Single Parents
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Blogging as a radical act
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Dooce
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The Bathroom Redo
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