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A Child of One's Own : Parental Stories / Rachel Bowlby.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 248 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780199607945 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.874 23 BOW
Contents:
Introduction 1. Changing conceptions 2. Surrogates and other mothers 3. Reproductive choice : a prehistory 4. Foundling fathers and mothers 5. Childlessness : Euripides' Medea 6. A tale of two parents : Charles Dickens's Great expectations 7. Finding a life : George Eliot's Silas Marner 8. His and hers : Henry Fielding's Tom Jones 9. Placement : Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 10. At all costs : George Moore's Esther Waters 11. Between parents : Henry James's What Maisie knew 12. Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge 13. 'I had Barbara' : women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman fever'.
Summary: Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) to be parents? How has the 'choice' first enabled by contraception changed the meaning of parenthood? Looking not only at new parental parts but at older parental stories, in novels and other works, this fascinating book offers fresh angles and arguments for thinking about parenthood today.
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Introduction 1. Changing conceptions 2. Surrogates and other mothers 3. Reproductive choice : a prehistory 4. Foundling fathers and mothers 5. Childlessness : Euripides' Medea 6. A tale of two parents : Charles Dickens's Great expectations 7. Finding a life : George Eliot's Silas Marner 8. His and hers : Henry Fielding's Tom Jones 9. Placement : Jane Austen's Mansfield Park 10. At all costs : George Moore's Esther Waters 11. Between parents : Henry James's What Maisie knew 12. Parental secrets in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge 13. 'I had Barbara' : women's ties and Edith Wharton's 'Roman fever'.

Among the elementary human stories, parenthood has tended to go without saying. Compared to the spectacular attachments of romantic love, it is only the predictable sequel. Compared to the passions of childhood, it is just a background. But in recent decades, far-reaching changes in typical family forms and in procreative possibilities (through reproductive technologies) have brought out new questions. Why do people want (or not want) to be parents? How has the 'choice' first enabled by contraception changed the meaning of parenthood? Looking not only at new parental parts but at older parental stories, in novels and other works, this fascinating book offers fresh angles and arguments for thinking about parenthood today.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.

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