Reviewing Women's Literature from a Feminist Perspective
Photographer Moyra Davey, overwhelmed by the birth of her first-born, began to read women’s narratives about mothering and writing in an effort to discover voices that articulated the ambivalence she felt as a first-time mom. From this came the idea
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A few years ago, I got my hands on a terrific book that exemplified my struggle with writing and mothering. Edited by Patricia Diensfrey and Brenda Hillman, The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, is the kind of
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Woolf advises female writers to write as independent of men, with their own money and their own space.
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Feminist Book Review of Hays’ ‘The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood’
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In The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother (Penguin Books, 1994), Thurer proffers that motherhood is a “cultural conspiracy of silence.”
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