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Mothers in children's and young adult literature : from the eighteenth century to postfeminism / edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats.

Fraustino, Lisa Rowe, (editor.). Coats, Karen, 1963- (editor.).

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ISBN: 9781496806994
ISBN: 1496806999
ISBN: 9781496818430
ISBN: 1496818431
Physical Description: xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Mothers wanted / Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats -- Barbauld and the body-part game : maternal pedagogy in the long Eighteenth century / Donelle Ruwe -- Juliana Ewing's Six to Sixteen : realizing and rewriting maternal legacy / Koeun Kim -- The romance of othermothering in Nineteenth-century Backfisch books / Julie Pfeiffer -- The women who sent their children away : mothers in Kindertransport fiction / Adrienne Kertzer -- Minority mama : rejecting the mainstream mothering model / Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore -- Cultural-historical activity theory and the expansive cycle of mothering while Black / Lauren Causey and Karen Coats -- "The hills were in her bones" : living in the blend of mothers and environments / Anna Katrina Gutierrez -- Animal mothers and animal babies in picture books / Robin Calland -- A daughter's sacrifice : saving the "Good-enough mother" from the Good Mother fantasy / Alexandra Kotanko -- "The mother was the mother, even when she wasn't" : maternal care ethics and children's fantasy / Mary Jeanette Moran -- "I would never be strong enough" : Sarah Dessen's postfeminist mothers / Sara K. Day -- Abandoning Mothers / Lisa Rowe Fraustino -- "A mom-shaped hole" : psychoanalysis and the dystopian maternal / Jennifer Mitchell.