Mothers and Daughters

Judith Pildes is a writer, speaker, teacher, and mother. She has spent much of the last two and a half years researching and writing Our Mothers' Daughters, a feminist analysis of the mother/daughter relationship. The book, and this article, include many quotations from her interviews with 120 women who talked to her about their mothers. Pildes teaches women's studies courses in women's literature, women's culture, and women's bodies. She also lectures on women's issues, including female sexuality, abortion and contraception, women's health care, woman's evolution, mothering and daughterhood. Pildes, thirty-five, lives in Chicago with her son Daniel, who is seven years old. Her mother, Ida, lives in Florida

Abortion · Daughter · Human sexuality · Political science · Pregnancy · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Psychology

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