The Theorist’s Mother

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By Andrew Parker ’75

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Duke University Press) The author examines the maternal in works by male critical theorists. He focuses primarily on Marx and Freud, and also looks at other figures like Derrida. Parker is an English professor at Amherst College.

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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