Andrea Liss' 2009 book, Feminist Art and the Maternal, features on the cover 
a painting of a bare-breasted woman nursing her child.  Included in the book 
are Mary Kelly's "Postpartum Document," Mierle Laderman 
Ukeles's "Maintenance Art" projects, Renee Cox's "Yo' Mama" portraits, and 
Ngozi Onwurah's film "The Body Beautiful".  An excerpt from an editorial 
review/book description on amazon.com:   "Liss considers traditional 
characteristics that mothers are assumed to possess, such as nurturing, 
empathy, and sacrifice for their children - - qualities that paradoxically have 
negatively defined women as "sentimental" - - and assertively revalues them 
within both motherhood and feminism.  Throughout, she deftly intertwines 
theoretical analysis with the arresting and enlightening first-person voices of 
artist-mothers and their children."  

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