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Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized
cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It
becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of
cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil.
After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a
mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it
means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long
tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering
practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea
of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and
the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are
mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are
human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The
contributors to this collection explore a multitude of
interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their
very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous
mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to
them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore
literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to
uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities.
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