Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood
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
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 ...
Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts
1st Edition
Edited
By Carole Zufferey, Fiona Buchanan
August 02, 2021
This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods. Mothering occurs within unequal ...
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Marchevska, Valerie Walkerdine
August 02, 2021
The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity.This ...