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Mothers & Mothering: A View From Time & Place

In celebration of Mother's Day, check out these great books and movies all about mothers and motherhood.

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May 2019

Books on Display

Love and Friendship by Whit Stillman
Call Number: PS3569.T48214 L68 2016
Publication Date: 2016-05-03
Coming to Life by Sarah LaChance Adams (Editor); Caroline R. Lundquist (Editor)
Call Number: RG551 .C66 2013
Publication Date: 2012-12-24
Riding Shotgun by Alison Mcghee (Contribution by); Sheila O'Connor (Contribution by); Shannon Olson (Contribution by); Wang Ping (Contribution by); Susan Power (Contribution by); Taiyon Coleman (Contribution by); Walsh Steger Susan (Contribution by); Sun Yung Shin (Contribution by); Anne Ursu (Contribution by); Ka Vang (Contribution by); Jonis Agee (Contribution by); Morgan Grayce Willow (Contribution by); Carrie Pomeroy (Contribution by); Jan Zita Grover (Contribution by); Elizabeth Jarret Andrew (Contribution by); Sandra Benitez (Contribution by); Barrie Jean Borich (Contribution by); Heid E. Erdrich (Contribution by); Diane Glancy (Contribution by); Kathryn Kysar (Editor); Denise Low (Contribution by)
Call Number: PS683.W65 R53 2008
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Between Mothers and Daughters by Susan Koppelman (Editor, Preface by); Alix Kates Shulman (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS648.M59 B48 2004
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran
Call Number: PS3619.E45 L83 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
The Caregiver by Samuel Park
Call Number: PS3616.A7436 C37 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson
Call Number: PS3610.A3525 A78 2017
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally
Call Number: PS3563.A323 M68 2014
Publication Date: 2014-08-21
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
Call Number: PS3558.O537 B66 2016
Publication Date: 2016-08-09
Mother by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551.N464 M68 2006
Publication Date: 2006-04-11
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
Call Number: PR9619.3.C36 H57 2008
Publication Date: 2008-02-05
Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin
Call Number: PR6070.O455 M68 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-02
Poemas de las Madres by Christiane J. Kyle (Translator); Sara Adlerstein-Gonzalez (Illustrator); Gabriela Mistral
Call Number: PQ8097.G6 P55 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano; Penny Hueston (Translator)
Call Number: PQ2673.O3 P4713 2016
Publication Date: 2016-08-23
Madame Proust by Evelyne Bloch-Dano; Alice Kaplan (Translator)
Call Number: PQ2631.R63 Z544813 2007
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
The Women Who Raised Me by Victoria Rowell
Call Number: PN2287.R774 A3 2007
Publication Date: 2007-04-10
Laboring Women by Jennifer L. Morgan
Call Number: HT1048 .M67 2004
Publication Date: 2004-02-25

Books on Display

Philomena by Martin Sixsmith; Judi Dench (Foreword by)
Call Number: HQ999.I73 S59 2013
Publication Date: 2013-11-06
Ourselves As Mothers by Sheila Kitzinger
Call Number: HQ759 .K559 1995
Publication Date: 1994-11-20
Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Call Number: HQ759 .H784 1999
Publication Date: 1999-09-21
Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890-1970 by Ann Taylor Allen
Call Number: HQ759 .A45 2005
Publication Date: 2005-09-06
Mothers and Their Children by Jane Ribbens
Call Number: HQ769 .R53 1994
Publication Date: 1995-10-20
Unbecoming Mothers by Diana L. Gustafson
Call Number: HQ759.3 .U63 2005
Publication Date: 2005-05-18
Mothers-in-Law and Daughters-in-Law by Deborah M. Merrill
Call Number: HQ759.25 .M47 2007
Publication Date: 2007-09-30
Mother Power by Jacqueline Hornor Plumez
Call Number: HQ759 .P57 2002
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Modern Motherhood by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
Call Number: HQ535 .V36 2014
Publication Date: 2014-05-26
Unstable Bodies by Jill L. Matus
Call Number: HQ29 .M44 1995
Publication Date: 1995-04-01
Mother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Call Number: HD8073.J6 G67 2001
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Our Black Sons Matter Mothers by Davidson Hadle Yancy; Maria Davidson (Editor); Farrah Jasmine Griffin (Afterword by); Susan Hadley (Editor); George Yancy (Editor)
Call Number: E185.86 .O85 2016
Publication Date: 2016-10-17
First Mothers by Bonnie Angelo
Call Number: E176.3 .A54 2000
Publication Date: 2000-10-01
Media and Middle Class Moms by Lara Descartes; Conrad Phillip Kottak
Call Number: HQ759.48 .D48 2009
Publication Date: 2009-02-05

Movies on Display

Mommie Dearest
Call Number: ENG MOM
Mildred Pierce
Call Number: ENG MIL
The Joy Luck Club
Call Number: ENG JOY
The Graduate
Call Number: ENG GRA

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