Janet Mason Ellerby is publishing Embroidering the Scarlet A: Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film (University of Michigan, 2015). Here's a description of the contents from the publisher's website.
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Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates “out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical, cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey, and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology, psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory. It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender
her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates
“out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women
and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as
blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on
narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the
ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant
thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over
time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed
perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives
of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology
meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical,
cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible
maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey,
and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A
will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology,
psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will
also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of
surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still
exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory.
It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural
shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
“Janet Ellerby brings an unusual and highly valuable voice to the
field of American literary studies as she surveys representations of
‘fallen’women, birthmothers, and their illegitimate children in American
fiction and film, as seen from a birthmother’s point of view. The
author’s personal approach–her identification with the characters and
their situations–makes for lively, fascinating, and distinctive
readings…. a significant, pathbreaking book.”
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Illustration : “Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks” by Mary Hallock Foote from The Scarlet Letter, James R. Osgood & Co, 1878.
Product Details
- 6 x 9.
- 290pp.
Available for sale worldwide
- Hardcover
- 2015
- Available
- 978-0-472-07263-7
- $85.00 U.S.
- Paper
- 2015
- Available
- 978-0-472-05263-9
- $34.50 U.S.
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Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender
her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates
“out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women
and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as
blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on
narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the
ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant
thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over
time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed
perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives
of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology
meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical,
cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible
maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey,
and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A
will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology,
psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will
also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of
surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still
exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory.
It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural
shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
“Janet Ellerby brings an unusual and highly valuable voice to the
field of American literary studies as she surveys representations of
‘fallen’women, birthmothers, and their illegitimate children in American
fiction and film, as seen from a birthmother’s point of view. The
author’s personal approach–her identification with the characters and
their situations–makes for lively, fascinating, and distinctive
readings…. a significant, pathbreaking book.”
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Illustration : “Hester Prynne & Pearl before the stocks” by Mary Hallock Foote from The Scarlet Letter, James R. Osgood & Co, 1878.
Product Details
- 6 x 9.
- 290pp.
Available for sale worldwide
- Hardcover
- 2015
- Available
- 978-0-472-07263-7
- $85.00 U.S.
- Paper
- 2015
- Available
- 978-0-472-05263-9
- $34.50 U.S.
Related Products
- Embroidering the Scarlet A
- Ebook
- 978-0-472-12105-2
- View Options
Stay connected
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno
Description
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender
her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates
“out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women
and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as
blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on
narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the
ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant
thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over
time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed
perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives
of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology
meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical,
cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible
maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey,
and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A
will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology,
psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will
also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of
surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still
exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory.
It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural
shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
“Janet Ellerby brings an unusual and highly valuable voice to the
field of American literary studies as she surveys representations of
‘fallen’women, birthmothers, and their illegitimate children in American
fiction and film, as seen from a birthmother’s point of view. The
author’s personal approach–her identification with the characters and
their situations–makes for lively, fascinating, and distinctive
readings…. a significant, pathbreaking book.”
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno
Description
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender
her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates
“out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women
and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as
blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on
narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the
ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant
thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over
time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed
perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives
of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology
meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical,
cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible
maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey,
and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A
will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology,
psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will
also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of
surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still
exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory.
It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural
shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
“Janet Ellerby brings an unusual and highly valuable voice to the
field of American literary studies as she surveys representations of
‘fallen’women, birthmothers, and their illegitimate children in American
fiction and film, as seen from a birthmother’s point of view. The
author’s personal approach–her identification with the characters and
their situations–makes for lively, fascinating, and distinctive
readings…. a significant, pathbreaking book.”
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
The first book-length study of changing cultural representations of unwed mothers in American fiction and film, from The Scarlet Letter to Juno
Description
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child.
Interweaving her own experience as a pregnant teen forced to surrender
her daughter and pledge secrecy for decades, Ellerby interrogates
“out-of-wedlock” motherhood, mapping the ways archetypal scarlet women
and their children have been exiled as social pariahs, pardoned as
blameless pawns, and transformed into empowered women. Drawing on
narrative, feminist, and autobiographical theory, the book examines the
ways that the texts have affirmed, subverted, or challenged dominant
thinking and the prevailing moral standards as they have shifted over
time. Using her own life experience and her uniquely informed
perspective, Ellerby assesses the effect these stories have on the lives
of real women and children. By inhabiting the space where ideology
meets narrative, Ellerby questions the constricting historical,
cultural, and social parameters of female sexuality and permissible
maternity.
As a feminist cultural critique, a moving autobiographical journey,
and an historical investigation that addresses both fiction and film, Embroidering the Scarlet A
will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, sociology,
psychology, women’s and gender studies, and film studies. The book will
also interest general readers, as it relates the experience of
surrendering a child to adoption at a time when birthmothers were still
exiled, birth records were locked away, and secrecy was still mandatory.
It will also appeal to those concerned with adoption or the cultural
shifts that have changed our thinking about illegitimacy.
“Janet Ellerby brings an unusual and highly valuable voice to the
field of American literary studies as she surveys representations of
‘fallen’women, birthmothers, and their illegitimate children in American
fiction and film, as seen from a birthmother’s point of view. The
author’s personal approach–her identification with the characters and
their situations–makes for lively, fascinating, and distinctive
readings…. a significant, pathbreaking book.”
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
— Margaret Homans, Yale University, author of The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
- See more at: http://www.press.umich.edu/6944967/embroidering_the_scarlet_a#sthash.z922XZdh.dpuf
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