Thematic Cluster: Love, Sexualities, and Marriage in Literature
Abstract
In her article "Motherhood and Sexuality in Flaubert's Madame Bovary" Amanda Kane Rooks examines the narration of relationships in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary between Emma's role as mother and her sexuality. Rooks argues that this narrative relationship provides a space where the association between the oppressions of motherhood and women's sexuality can be better understood. Further, Rooks posits that Flaubert's narrative condemns the nineteenth-century Western predilection for constructing a relationship of mutual exclusivity between motherhood and sexuality, while it exposes socially sanctioned performances of motherhood and sexuality as allied, perverse manifestations of the same repressive ideological system.
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Rooks, Amanda Kane
"Motherhood and Sexuality in Flaubert's Madame Bovary."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.3
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2415>
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