| Popis: |
This chapter presents a reading of Anne Richardson Roiphe's novel Up the Sandbox! (1970). The novel creates a split narrative for its main character, one of liberation and social change juxtaposed against one of middle-class domestic life, to demonstrate the cultural minefields in place for women who challenge patriarchal norms. Roiphe's ambivalent ending tests traditional notions of the consciousness-raising novel and points to a nuanced view of white liberal motherhood. It is argued that, in her portrayal of the monstrous cleaved self of the mother, Roiphe attempts to wrestle mothering from its patriarchal moorings and set it loose in the playground of feminist politics. |
