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Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood

2 Series Titles


Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism: Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

1st Edition

By Mary Trigg
August 26, 2024

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960. Fuelled by anxieties around feminism, a perception of men’s loss ...

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

1st Edition

Edited By Valerie Renegar, Kirsti Cole
August 26, 2024

This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood. This ...

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