Giving an Account of Another: Commentary on Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence”

Baraitser, Lisa

doi:10.1080/15240657.2012.640218

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“…Still, Griffin and I have not been alone. Tilly Olsen (1978), Ellen Ross (1995), Lisa Baraitser (2012), and Miri Rozmarin (2012) point at the abundance of mothers’ writing through the centuries. These narratives, which have often taken autobiographical form, have frequently mingled personal and theoretical reflections in an attempt to express the complexity of motherly experience mainly in the face of the need to write literature.…”

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“…The voice of the mother is me, the voices of her children, the voice of the weary yet compelled woman-peace activist, the voices of the poor women who killed their children, or the voices of young students who tell of the violence of the Jewish–Arab conflict. This is a space in which I dwell on the daily details which are usually considered not worthy of description as Baraitser rightly declares (Baraitser, 2012, p. 16). For example, the exhaustion and boredom involved in the work of mothering, or the confusion of the researcher in the archive, or the daily labor of resistance work on campus—and I ascribe them no less importance than theoretical generalizations.…”

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Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance

Hager

2015

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How can I use my writing to tackle my conflicting experiences as a writer, a mother, a feminist activist in Israeli academia? How can words combine the routine exhausting work and pleasures of motherhood; my struggles against injustice done to the Arab minority in my country, torn by unrelenting conflict; and the need to turn my back on all these obligations and efforts to write? As the normative expectation of mothers is to identify with the maternal role, activism which involves resistance and thus social and political hazards may be considered a threat to maternal work. But whereas one could argue that activism is, in fact, a social and communal extension of motherhood, writing is over and over again perceived as a neglect of maternal duties. In this article, I introduce feminist autobiography as a literary form which has enabled me as mother-writer-activist to create a space where social, cultural, political, and psychological conflicts and contradictions can intermingle, creating an alternative maternal subjectivity and voice.

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Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance

Hager

2015

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“…I take a feminist disability studies approach to the notion of time and maternal subjectivity and build in particular on the work of Alison Kafer (2013), Lisa Baraitser (2009Baraitser ( , 2012 and Rosemarie Garland- Thomson (2011Thomson ( , 2012Thomson ( , 2014. I start by exploring the way notions of time are central to discourses about disability before summarising some key discussions on women's time and caring, including Baraitser's work on interrupted time and mothering.…”

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Out of Time: Maternal time and disability

Robertson¹

2015

Studies in the Maternal

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Rachel Robertson, Out of Time: Maternal time and disabilityStudies in the Maternal, 7(1), 2015, www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk Rachel Robertson Out of Time: Maternal time and disability A momentHe is laughing. He stands under a jet of water, arms out-stretched, hands wide, face tipped, mouth open -and he laughs. Then he runs around to do it all again -up the steps, down the water slide, through the fountain of water and finally standing under the bell-shaped spout as it gradually fills with water and laughing as it tips down and over him. It's a hot day and other children are here too, shrieking and racing up and down the slide and through the water

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The Ethics of Listening in Psychoanalytic Conversations

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2018

Psychoanalysis, Self and Context

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Giving an Account of Another: Commentary on Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence”

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance

Maternal Autobiography as a Site of Feminist Negotiation and Resistance

Out of Time: Maternal time and disability

The Ethics of Listening in Psychoanalytic Conversations

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