Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest

Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest Biblical Mothers & Their Children Cheryl A. Kirk-duggan & Tina Pippin, eds.Society of Biblical Literature, 2009ISBN 9781589834415 Softcover, 244 pp.6.0 X 9.0 X 0.55 inches | 0.8 pounds Who are the mothers in the biblical text? What do they do? What kinds of power do they have? Issues of identity, authority, violence, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, sexual exploitation and rape-marriage, murder, and relation to God have haunted the characters and representations of motherhood from Eve to Mary and beyond. For better or for worse, these images speak potent messages even today. To explore biblical mothers and their relationships with their daughters and sons, the contributors to this volume participate in a comparative analysis between biblical mothers and mothers in popular media, history, literature, and the arts. The diversity of methods they employ prompts a rich discussion on the deconstruction of motherhood, offering new ways of