Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of mothers and daughters who experienced the era of Women's Liberation, a timely cultural study describes the stresses and rewards of being and having a feminist mother.
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Do women who whip up the winds of change instill the same revolutionary fervor in their children? Do they live contradictions? Do they make good mothers? In some ways, yes, in other ways, no. In a series of intriguing interviews done by a mother-daughter team, 23 contemporary feminists and their daughters share moments of connection and conflict in their lives. That many of these talented, politically-driven mothers were a tough act to live with or to follow is a given; that their daughters should often--albeit sometimes grudgingly--come to appreciate their vision, grit, and will to shift mountains is a blessing.
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Mother-daughter team Baker (In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page, Univ. of Illinois, 1996) and Kline (Sweet Water, LJ 5/15/93) interviewed other mothers and daughters, one or both prominent second-wave feminists. They then edited the material into first-person narratives, a technique they admit some participants objected to (a list of the questions asked is included in an appendix). Initially, 65 women were selected, of whom 44 permitted their stories to be published (after extensive editing and in some cases omission of material). The results are curiously bland. Somehow, the experiences of such diverse women as Tillie Olsen, Patsy Mink, Alix Kates Shulman, Barbara Seaman, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Eleanor Smeal, Barbara Ehrenreich, Naomi Wolf, Paula Gunn Allen, and Joy Harjo have come to sound too much the same. Some of the material contradicts questionable suggestions made in the introduction (the notion that feminists of the 1970s seldom addressed the subject of motherhood, for example), though overall the work provides some valuable biographical details about leading feminists. For comprehensive women's studies collections.
Beverly A. Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Beverly A. Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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