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Jacobsen, Cheryl Rose. "Lifting the Curse of Eve: Textual Constructions of Gender and Identity in Women's Writings on Childbirth," University of Iowa, December 1991. Advisor: Albert E. Stone (2, 12, 22)
Women’s fictional discourse of the 1890s, 1930s, and 1970s which foregrounds birth raises questions about identity, cultural valuing of women, and production of a text with an authentic female voice. These concerns are shared by women producing popular advice books during the same time. The two discourse modes contribute to cultural dialogue which promotes women’s maternal talents or advocates women’s rights. Both arguments in nineteenth-century advice are deconstructed in Chopin’s The Awakening. Twentieth-century advice texts advocate autonomy which is challenged in Le Sueur’s The Girl and Betts’ “Still Life with Fruit.” Women’s advice discourse revises ideology; fiction explores its radical margins.
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