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The Heart of a Woman

SHIRLEY NELSON GARNER (ESSAY DATE 1991)

SOURCE: Garner, Shirley Nelson. "Constructing the Mother: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theorists and Women Autobiographers." In Narrating Mothers: Theorizing Maternal Subjectivities, edited by Brenda O. Daly and Maureen T. Reddy, pp. 86-93. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

In the following excerpt, Garner focuses on The Heart of a Woman as a work that places mothers in a social and cultural context.

Setting women autobiographers beside these therapists and theorists [D. W. Winnicott, Nancy Chodorow, and others], I think of several who deal with mothers: Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Kim Chernin. Published between 1975 and 1983, The Woman Warrior, The Heart of a Woman, Zami, and In My Mother's...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
4. General Commentary
   1. Mary Jane Lupton (Essay Date Summer 1990)
5. Title Commentary
   1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
   2. The Heart of a Woman
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. Maya Angelou
2. Feminism