Giving an account of another: commentary on Rozmarin's 'Maternal Silence'
Baraitser, Lisa (2012) Giving an account of another: commentary on Rozmarin's 'Maternal Silence'. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 13 (1), pp. 15-23. ISSN 1524-0657.
Abstract
This discussion of Miri Rozmarin's “Maternal Silence” (this issue) situates Rozmarin's article within a wider literature on motherhood and writing before moving on to argue that although a powerful account of maternal ethics, Rozmarin's call for a certain stepping aside from maternal narrative has particular resonance with discourses of maternal masochism. I argue that the child's “open future” cannot be protected by maternal silence as, following Jean Laplanche (2007), both maternal and social “noise” precipitate the possibility of a future that is never fully open. I close by linking maternal narrative with maternal temporality and suggest that this may entail an acceptance of what refuses development, what resists time.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Schools and Departments > School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Psychosocial Studies |
| Research Centre: | Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics (MAMSIE), Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR) |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Dec 2014 15:35 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2016 14:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/11355 |
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