EAN: 9783631664957

MOTHERHOOD AND SELF-REALIZATION IN THE FOUR WAV...

The author examines motherhood and female self-realization in feminist discourse and Joyce
Carol Oates's recent fiction. While the first and second wave of feminism repudiated motherhood
the third wave claimed the right to enjoy it. The present fourth wave is now reviving the
reservations about motherhood of the first two waves. This book demonstrates how Oates's
writing reflects these shifts and how Oates takes up and transforms feminist standpoints in her
work without writing conventional feminist literature. Literary criticism has only marginally
dealt with Oates's mother figures. Drawing on Gender Studies and  in particular  on the
transnational relation between French and American feminism  this book fills this gap.

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