"of [white] woman born": how whiteness, motherhood, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship in 20th century, u.s. literature contrasts minority texts

"of [white] woman born": how whiteness, motherhood, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship in 20th century, u.s. literature contrasts minority texts. (2017). "of [white] woman born": how whiteness, motherhood, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship in 20th century, u.s. literature contrasts minority texts.

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Title	"of [white] woman born": how whiteness, motherhood, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship in 20th century, u.s. literature contrasts minority texts
Abstract	This study examines how mother-daughter relationships in white culture differ from mother-daughter relationships in minority cultures, specifically Chicano, Asian American, and African American culture, due to white culture's lack of appropriate esteem for the role of mothering. Mother-daughter relationships in minority cultures tend to be much stronger due to a cultural reverence of motherhood, resulting in less mother-blame and mother-guilt. Fictional and non-fictional representations of the mother-daughter relationship typically include culturally normative viewpoints regarding the mother-daughter relationship which suggest that white women and women of color are influenced by cultural ideologies of femininity. In recognizing these discrepancies, dominant culture can begin to recognize their own practices to be white specific rather than universal. This can perhaps lead white culture to learn from minority culture's cultivation of the mother-daughter bond.
Date	2017

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Title: "of [white] woman born": how whiteness, motherhood, and the fraught mother-daughter relationship in 20th century, u.s. literature contrasts minority texts
Personal Name(s): Gibson, Charity L.
Watson, Veronica
Corporate Name(s): Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English.
Note: Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Watson, Veronica Committee members: Tanya Heflin; Mike Sell.
Topical Subject(s): African American Studies
Black studies
Asian American Studies
Womens studies
American literature
Individual & family studies
Hispanic American studies