Citations:momoir

English citations of momoir

Noun: "a memoir written by or about a mother"

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• 2006 — "Introduction", in Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined (eds. Andrea J. Buchanan & Amy Hudock), Seal Press (2006), →ISBN, page xi:

  The proliferation of women publishing work on motherhood has even given rise to the term "momoir" — a dismissive label applied to memoirs that focus on the psychological, spiritual, and emotional development of a woman through motherhood.

• 2006 — Ann Douglas, Sleep Solutions for Your Baby, Toddler, and Preschooler: The Ultimate No-Worry Approach for Each Age and Stage, John Wiley & Sons (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  In her 2003 "momoir" (a.k.a. motherhood memoir) Dispatches from a Not-So-Perfect Life or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child, Faulkner Fox mentions a tired parent she knew who inquired about the sleep habits of everyone she met.

• 2006 — Lizzie Skurnick, "Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy", The New York Times, 17 December 2006:

  So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J. Buchanan's "Mother Shock" and Muffy Mead-Ferro's "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."

• 2007 — Andrea Gordon, "Exploring the many angles of motherhood", Toronto Star, 18 October 2007:

  But amid the current glut of "momoirs," essay collections, blogs, polemics and online conversations, it's hard not to wonder if we're approaching a saturation point.

• 2009 — Ann Robinson, "Northwest writers at work: John Daniel", The Sunday Oregonian, 19 April 2009:

  His eight books include award-winning memoirs of his mother ("Looking After") and his father ("Rogue River Journal"), which he calls his "momoir" and "popoir."

• 2009 — Debra Nussbaum Cohen, "The Jewish Mother, Revisted", The Jewish Daily Forward, 31 July 2009:

  Waldman's book is one of a new batch of "momoirs" hitting the shelves, written by Jewish women who cop to being a certain kind of "bad mother."

• 2010 — Amber E. Kinser, Motherhood and Feminism, Seal Press (2010), →ISBN, page 95:

  Family values, "postfeminism," Operation Rescue, backlash, the Mommy Wars, and the "momoirs" — in the late 20th and early 21st centuries feminists faced a series of conservative efforts to reduce all of womanhood to motherhood […]

• 2010 — Wendy Kline, Bodies of Knowledge: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Women's Health in the Second Wave, University of Chicago Press (2010), →ISBN, page 159:

  Some readers criticize these "momoirs" as upper-middle-class laments from women with too much time on their hands.

• 2010 — Elizabeth Podnieks & Andrea O'Reilly, "Introduction", in Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures (eds. Elizabeth Podnieks & Andrea O'Reilly), Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2010), →ISBN, page 18:

  Despite the tendency of momoirs to essentialize gender, Frye is convinced that through the maternal voices of these texts, "we might not only find ways to move beyond the hazards of essentialism, beyond the paradox of representing maternal subjectivity; we might also develop a dynamic way of rethinking what is^[sic] means to be a 'self' at all."