Lipson, Nicole Graev

Overview "My thesis contains six essays from my collection-in-progress, 'Mothers and Other Fictional Characters,' which blends memoir and literary investigation to explore the forces shaping girls and the women they become. In my collection's three sequential sections—Maidens, Mothers, and Crones—I consider the archetypes imposed on the female life span. What happens, my essays ask, when our inherited narratives of womanhood collide with our particular experiences and circumstances? And what can...