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Captive Bodies:
American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth
Mary Ruth Marotte
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October 2008
146 pages $19.95
978-1-55014-999-9
Table of Contents
Introduction: Captive Bodies: American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth
Chapter 1:
The Historical Female Captivity Narrative as Precursor to the Twentieth-Century Pregnancy Narrative
Chapter 2:
Legitimizing Captivity: Pregnancy from Chopin to O’Connor
Chapter 3:
Working-Class Writers on Pregnancy: Freeing Socially and Economically Captive Bodies
Chapter 4:
Emerging From Captivity: How African American Women Writers Use Pregnancy and Childbirth to Confront the Past and Create the Future
Chapter 5:
Captivated By Captivity: How Memoirs Reinscribe Pregnancy for the Contemporary Reader
Conclusion
References
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