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Article: Mother underground. (short story)
- Article from:
- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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My mother called last night. I record this fact noting that it sounds reassuringly normal, as if telephone conversations between my mother and me were as habitual and unreflective as swallowing, as if my mother were anybody's mother and I were anybody's daughter, as if our relations adhered to the model of female bonding enjoined first by the sitcoms of my adolescence and then by the feminist psychoanalytic studies of my adulthood, as if my mother had been calling regularly throughout the twenty-five years since I was purged from the family. In point of fact, my mother has been actively engaged in not speaking to me during about half this period--about half my adult life, ...
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