1st Edition

The Name of the Mother Writing Illegitimacy

By Marie Maclean Copyright 1994
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

In this original and highly accomplished study, first published in 1994, Marie Maclean studies the writings of social rebels and explores the relationship between their personal narratives and illegitimacy. The case studies which Maclean examines fall into four groups: those which stress alternative family structures and ‘female genealogies’ those which pair female illegitimacy and... Read more

Preface, 1. Performances of Exclusion, 2. Myth and Psychoanalysis: Legitimate and Illegitimate, 3. Mythical Histories, Historical Myths, 4. A Female Genealogy: The En-gendering of George Sand, 5. Opposition and Revolution: Olympe de Gouges and the Rights of the Dispossessed, 6. The Male/Female Messiah: Flora Tristan, 7. My Mother the Revolution: Louise Michel, 8. Symbolic Delegitimation, 9. ‘Better to Reign in Hell…’, 10. Delegitimation by Proxy, 11. Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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Marie Maclean