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• Title: Cultural Memory, Feminism and Motherhood.
• Author : Arena Journal
• Release Date : January 22, 2005
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 182 KB

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Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. (1) Remembering the culture of our mothers and retelling our versions of their lives has long been a feminist preoccupation. From the feminist narratives of the 1970s to the recent boom in the field of women's life-writing and memoir, personal memories of mothers have taken on a public or collective significance. Feminism itself has been portrayed as a 'mother who did not give enough'. (2) What counts as memory in this context, and what is forgotten, has a decidedly political character. Reflecting on her earliest feminist encounters, Anne Roiphe writes that in respect to our mothers 'we ground them up in our long conversations and spat them out'. (3) Such recollections--along with memories of mothers as depressed, angry or misguided--are commonplace. If, however, the content of what is recalled, forgotten or suppressed is, as Marianne Hirsch and Valerie Smith argue, 'intricately bound up with issues of power and hegemony', (4) we might ask just what is revealed by this type of feminist cultural memory? I will argue that there has been an active forgetting of the 'nurturing' mother in feminist recall, and that this is of profound cultural significance.

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