Add to ORKGIn her Article Professor Ashe explores the model of the bad, or unfit, mother in law and literature-the woman whose reckless or murderous behaviors threaten or destroy her children. She argues that the bad mother archetype influences the legal practitioner and shapes the attorney-client relationship. She challenges prevailing interpretations of zealous advocacy and discusses the way in which the bad mother figure threatens the development of narrative theory. In attempting to address these problems, she explores Toni Morrison\u27s refiguring of the bad mother in Beloved as subject, rather than object, of narrative. Professor Ashe suggests applying a similar practice of refiguring the role of bad mothers to the problems of lawy...