Full Description
Family stories of the ties between mothers and daughters form the foundation of Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures. Nationally and internationally known feminist scholars frame, analyze, and explore mother-daughter bonds in this collection of essays. Cultures from around the world are mined for insights which reveal historical, generational, ethnic, political, religious, and social class differences. This book focuses on the tenacity of the connection between mothers and daughters, impediments to a strong connection, and practices of good communication. Mothers and Daughters will interest those studying communication, women's studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, counseling, and cultural studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Brinlee Kramer with Cheris Kramarae and Jana Kramer
Introduction
Helen M. Sterk and Alice H. Deakins
SECTION I:
THE TENACITY OF CONNECTION
Chapter One: Birthing: Daughters' Transitions to Motherhood
Helen M. Sterk and Rita L. Feikema
Chapter Two: Reconnections for Life Enhancement: Daughters After Mother Loss
Deborah A. O'Neil and Susan Schick Case
Chapter Three: Embodying Resistance, Enforcing Obedience: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Recent Indo-Anglian Fiction
Rajender Kaur
Chapter Four: Mothers and Daughters: Glimpses Through Time
Alice H. Deakins
SECTION II:
IMPEDIMENTS TO CONNECTION
Chapter Five: Two of Me: Mothers and Daughters in Connection
Michelle Miller-Day
Chapter Six: Mother Care/Daughter Care: The Bridge That Is My Back
Rebecca Bryant Lockridge and Sarah Lockridge
Chapter Seven: The 80hoo Generation: Rethinking Their Mother-Daughter Relationships During Childhood in China
Xue Yongling with Mei Zhong
Chapter Eight: Voices from the Andes: Jaqi Mothers and Daughters
M. J. Hardman and Shumaya Martha Bautista Hardman
SECTION III:
CREATING AND MAINTAINING CONNECTIONS
Chapter Nine: On the Transition from Childhood to Womanhood: Constructing Coming of Age Rituals in U.S. American Culture
Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Alyssa C. Ballard-Reisch, and Jackie Silviera-Sater
Chapter Ten: "Pecked to Death by Ducks": Managing Dialectal Tensions in the Mother-Adolescent Daughter Relationship
Barbara Penington
Chapter Eleven: Negotiation of Attachment/Separation Tension in Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters Who Are Pursuing Careers in Academia
Marjorie A. Jaasma, Frances Jeffries, and Keith Nainby
Chapter Twelve: An Untold Story: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through Food
Miriam Meyers
Chapter Thirteen: Constructing the Grandmother-Granddaughter Relationship through Communication: A Review of the Relevant Literature
Lynn H. Turner
SECTION IV:
MOTHER-DAUGHTER CONNECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
Chapter Fourteen: Mothers and Daughters in the Global Village
Alice H. Deakins
Works Cited
Author Biographies
Index
