Other People's Mothers
| AUTHOR | Wade, Julie Marie |
| PUBLISHER | University Press of Florida (09/02/2025) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
A nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age
story told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures in
her life Relationships
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in the
best of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothers
of our friends--looking to them, learning from them (for better or for worse), and
wondering what it would be like to be a part of their families.
Other
People's Mothers
is a collection of interconnected, autobiographical essays that explore the
relationship between a daughter, her mother, and the other mothers present in
their lives. In this coming-of-age memoir, Julie Marie Wade traces a nexus of
female influences on her formative years in the '80s and '90s.
Through words and actions, the women around her communicate powerful and often
contradictory messages about class, religion, education, and morality, holding
enormous power over Wade's journey toward adulthood.
In
expanding her exploration of motherhood and daughterhood to include these "other
mothers," Wade takes a new and surprising kaleidoscopic approach to her
portrayals of family life. This book reveals a young woman in the late twentieth
century grappling with gendered expectations, beauty and body ideals, and
complex messages about who she is permitted--or destined--to become.
story told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures in
her life Relationships
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in the
best of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothers
of our friends--looking to them, learning from them (for better or for worse), and
wondering what it would be like to be a part of their families.
Other
People's Mothers
is a collection of interconnected, autobiographical essays that explore the
relationship between a daughter, her mother, and the other mothers present in
their lives. In this coming-of-age memoir, Julie Marie Wade traces a nexus of
female influences on her formative years in the '80s and '90s.
Through words and actions, the women around her communicate powerful and often
contradictory messages about class, religion, education, and morality, holding
enormous power over Wade's journey toward adulthood.
In
expanding her exploration of motherhood and daughterhood to include these "other
mothers," Wade takes a new and surprising kaleidoscopic approach to her
portrayals of family life. This book reveals a young woman in the late twentieth
century grappling with gendered expectations, beauty and body ideals, and
complex messages about who she is permitted--or destined--to become.
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ISBN-13:
9780813081144
ISBN-10:
0813081149
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
182
Carton Quantity:
40
Product Dimensions:
6.10 x 0.70 x 5.50 inches
Weight:
0.55 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Literary Collections | Essays
Literary Collections | LGBTQ+
Literary Collections | Women Authors
Dewey Decimal:
306.874
Library of Congress Control Number:
2025004302
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A nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age
story told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures in
her life Relationships
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in the
best of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothers
of our friends--looking to them, learning from them (for better or for worse), and
wondering what it would be like to be a part of their families.
Other
People's Mothers
is a collection of interconnected, autobiographical essays that explore the
relationship between a daughter, her mother, and the other mothers present in
their lives. In this coming-of-age memoir, Julie Marie Wade traces a nexus of
female influences on her formative years in the '80s and '90s.
Through words and actions, the women around her communicate powerful and often
contradictory messages about class, religion, education, and morality, holding
enormous power over Wade's journey toward adulthood.
In
expanding her exploration of motherhood and daughterhood to include these "other
mothers," Wade takes a new and surprising kaleidoscopic approach to her
portrayals of family life. This book reveals a young woman in the late twentieth
century grappling with gendered expectations, beauty and body ideals, and
complex messages about who she is permitted--or destined--to become.
story told through one young woman's relationships with the mother figures in
her life Relationships
between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught. Even in the
best of circumstances, many of us may have grown up curious about the mothers
of our friends--looking to them, learning from them (for better or for worse), and
wondering what it would be like to be a part of their families.
Other
People's Mothers
is a collection of interconnected, autobiographical essays that explore the
relationship between a daughter, her mother, and the other mothers present in
their lives. In this coming-of-age memoir, Julie Marie Wade traces a nexus of
female influences on her formative years in the '80s and '90s.
Through words and actions, the women around her communicate powerful and often
contradictory messages about class, religion, education, and morality, holding
enormous power over Wade's journey toward adulthood.
In
expanding her exploration of motherhood and daughterhood to include these "other
mothers," Wade takes a new and surprising kaleidoscopic approach to her
portrayals of family life. This book reveals a young woman in the late twentieth
century grappling with gendered expectations, beauty and body ideals, and
complex messages about who she is permitted--or destined--to become.
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Author:
Wade, Julie Marie
Julie Marie Wade is the author of Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books, 2014), winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir; Without: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011); POSTAGE DUE: POEMS & PROSE POEMS (White Pine Press, 2013), winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series; Tremolo: An Essay (Bloom Books, 2013), winner of the Bloom Nonfiction Chapbook Prize; and WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014). She is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University.
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