Date of Degree
6-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Program
Biography and Memoir
Advisor
Jason Tougaw
Subject Categories
Nonfiction
Keywords
identity, grief, relationality, family, memoir
Abstract
In The Landscape of Daughterhood, Goldstone explores what it means to be a daughter with a flexible definition. Through the lenses of Judaism, Feminism, and general social expectations for family, these essays grapple with an identity that was taught to her, mired in tradition and the past, and one that she yearns to be free of, or at least, in control of, given who she is today and how she fits (or does not) into her family.
Goldstone’s essays interrogate ideas of preservation (of the self, and of the mother/daughter bond), nourishment, language, relationality and temporality as she works to redefine how she can be a motherless daughter with two living parents from whom she is mostly estranged, and two sisters (and five nieces and nephews) to whom she is still webbed and rooted.
Recommended Citation
Goldstone, Sarah, "The Landscape of Daughterhood: A Redefinition" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5328
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