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emma_in_dream# 40 Maureen T Reddy, Martha Roth, Amy Sheldon (Eds), Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering (1994)
'Feminist mothering involves coming up against social expectations for how to be a mother that lack appropriateness, truth, or even meaning for women. Each woman is left with the potentially creative task of resisting and transforming the socially dominant ideas of motherhood in order to fashion her own truth of the experience.'
This collection includes two lesbian writers who talk about their experiences as mothers. Sarah Bruckner writes about the process of adopting her two children while keeping the reality that she lived in a committed lesbian relationship away from the social workers. The horror of this blows my mind. Judy Remington writes about having adolescents and grown children, a more happy essay.
I found the small presence of lesbian mothers in this collection a refreshing change as usually writing about motherhood is all about the presumption tat there is a man in the background.
'Feminist mothering involves coming up against social expectations for how to be a mother that lack appropriateness, truth, or even meaning for women. Each woman is left with the potentially creative task of resisting and transforming the socially dominant ideas of motherhood in order to fashion her own truth of the experience.'
This collection includes two lesbian writers who talk about their experiences as mothers. Sarah Bruckner writes about the process of adopting her two children while keeping the reality that she lived in a committed lesbian relationship away from the social workers. The horror of this blows my mind. Judy Remington writes about having adolescents and grown children, a more happy essay.
I found the small presence of lesbian mothers in this collection a refreshing change as usually writing about motherhood is all about the presumption tat there is a man in the background.
