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Troubling Motherhood

Lucy B. Hall,Laura J. Shepherd

Author : Lucy B. Hall,Laura J. Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Human reproduction
ISBN : 9780190939182

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"In global politics, women's bodies are policed, objectified, surveilled, and feared, with particular attention paid to both their met or unmet procreative potential. By illuminating and interrogating representations and narratives of maternity, this volume shows how practices of global politics shape and are shaped by the gendered norms and institutions that underpin motherhood. The guiding theoretical idea in this volume is that motherhood matters in global politics. However - as with so many political phenomena coded 'female' in the binary cognitive architectures of the West - the diverse ways in which performances and practices of motherhood are constituted by and are constitutive of other dimensions of political life they are frequently obscured or assumed to be of little interest to scholars, policy makers, and practitioners. Featuring innovative and diverse interrogations of the politics of motherhood as an institution, this collection shows that maternality is troubled, complicated, and heterogeneous in global politics and thus performances and practices of motherhood warrant closer and more sustained scrutiny"--

Troubling Maternity

Emily Jeremiah

Author : Emily Jeremiah
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781904350101

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The question of maternity is crucial for feminists, to whom it represents both challenge and inspiration, as it is for many thinkers engaged with the issues of agency, corporeality, and ethics. This examination puts forward the idea of a 'maternal performativity', drawing on the work of Judith Butler and numerous other feminist theorists, to offer new ways of looking at 1970s and 1980s literary texts by ten German-speaking women writers, including Barbara Frischmuth, Elfriede Jelinek, Irmtraud Morgner, and Karin Struck. It argues that as yet, maternal agency has not adequately been theorized - a project which is urgent, given the traditional view in Western culture of the mother as passive - and suggests that Butler's notion of performativity can assist in this task. It proposes a performative conception of both mothering and literature, and links both of these to the question of ethics, which is understood as involving embodiment and relationality. To different extents, all of the texts examined depict mothers as marginal, abject, or insane, thus demonstrating the operations of exclusion, and the need for a maternal agency to be developed and enacted. The idea of maternal performativity is refined in five chapters, which focus, respectively, on community, corporeality, the mother-child relationship, the family, and discursive production. The conclusion explores the ethics of literary practice and knowledge production, and argues that in the light of the developing fields of new reproductive technologies and genetics, it is imperative that we seek new understandings of embodiment, community, and care, a task to which this study aspires to contribute.

Motherhood

Sheila Heti

Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810564

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A daring, funny, and poignant novel about the desire and duty to procreate, by one of our most brilliant and original writers. Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood—whether or not to have children—with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim, and which led her previous work, How Should a Person Be?, to be called "one of the most talked-about books of the year" (TIME magazine). Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice. In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how—and for whom—to live.

Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes

Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko

Author : Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1772583332

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Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes by Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko Pdf

Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life m

Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence

Deniz Ülke Arıboğan,Hamoon Khelghat-Doost

Author : Deniz Ülke Arıboğan,Hamoon Khelghat-Doost
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031365386

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Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence by Deniz Ülke Arıboğan,Hamoon Khelghat-Doost Pdf

This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world. While the international relations discipline has traditionally viewed the relationship between women and violent actors as an exploitative one, this book demonstrates that taking maternal bodies seriously creates important intellectual space to examine the types and kinds of violence the discipline of IR takes seriously and the types and kinds of resistance practiced by mothers but often overlooked (at least by male/mainstream IR). Focusing on motherhood as an agency of change, this volume will appeal to scholars in the field of gender and international security, think tanks working on political and security affairs, social activists, policymakers, an interested public audience, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking study or research associated with gender and political violence.

Mothering a Bodied Curriculum

Stephanie Springgay,Debra Freedman

Author : Stephanie Springgay,Debra Freedman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442696853

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This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' – a practice that attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of ‘being-with’ other bodies differently, and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce. Contributors argue that the prevailing silence about the maternal body in educational scholarship reinforces the binary split between domestic and public spaces, family life and work, one's own children and others' children, and women's roles as ‘mothers’ or ‘others.’ Providing an interdisciplinary perspective in which postmodern ideas about the body interact with those of learning and teaching, Mothering a Bodied Curriculum brings theory and practice together into an ever-evolving conversation.

Bearing Witness

Karen O'Donnell,Katie Cross

Author : Karen O'Donnell,Katie Cross
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334061175

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Bearing Witness by Karen O'Donnell,Katie Cross Pdf

Much like theology itself, the experience of trauma has the potential to reach into almost any aspect of life, refusing to fit within the tramlines. A follow up to the 2020 volume "Feminist Trauma Theologies", "Bearing Witness" explores further into global, intersectional, and as yet relatively unexplored perspectives. With a particular focus on poverty, gender and sexualities, race and ethnicity, and health in dialogue with trauma theology the book seeks to demonstrate both the far reaching and intersectional nature of trauma, encouraging creative and ground-breaking theological reflections on trauma and constructions of theology in the light of the trauma experience. A unique set of insights into the real-life experience of trauma, the book includes chapters authored by a diverse group of academic theologians, practitioners and activists. The result is a theology which extend far into the public square

The Maternal Instincts Mysteries Special Collection: Bundle of Trouble, Motherhood is Murder, Formula for Murder

Diana Orgain

Author : Diana Orgain
Publisher : Diana Orgain
Page : 1363 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Maternal Instincts Mysteries Special Collection: Bundle of Trouble, Motherhood is Murder, Formula for Murder by Diana Orgain Pdf

The first three novels in the series that critics describe as “A fun, fast, cozy read that will keep its readers entertained and anxiously awaiting the next installment. A must read.” This omnibus edition includes the first THREE books in the best-selling Maternal Instincts Mystery series and is nearly 1000 pages of murder, thrills and laughs. BUNDLE OF TROUBLE (Book 1) A body has been dredged from the San Francisco Bay. Kate Connelly, pregnant and ready to pop, has reason to fear it may be her long lost brother-in-law. Battling sleep deprivation, diaper blowouts and breastfeeding mishaps she muddles through her own investigation, Mommy style:To do:1.Find Killer2.Figure out hideous breast pump.3.Avoid cranky cop.4.Send out Make birth announcements – need pink paper.5.FIND KILLERMOTHERHOOD IS MURDER (Book 2)Nights out are hard to come by for new parents. So when Kate’s new- mommy club, Roo & You, holds a dinner cruise, she and her husband leave baby Laurie with Kate’s mom and join the grown-ups for some fine dining on the San Francisco Bay.But when one of the cofounders of Roo & You takes a fatal spill down a staircase, the police department crashes the party. Suddenly every mom and her man has a motive. Kate’s on deck to solve the mystery- but a killer’s determined to make her rue the day she joined the first-time-mom’s club…FORMULA FOR MURDER (Book 3)Sleuth and first-time mom Kate Connolly and her baby are the victims of a hit-and-run, but escape unharmed. A witness identifies the car’s French diplomatic license plates, yet when Kate and her hubby try to get some answers, they get le cold shoulder.But there’s something going on at the French consulate that’s dirtier-and far deadlier-than any diaper. More than 100,000 copies downloaded since the series launched. Grab your copy now and save 45% against buying the individual books

Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing

Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Anna Williams,Margaretha Fahlgren

Author : Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Anna Williams,Margaretha Fahlgren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031172113

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Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing by Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Anna Williams,Margaretha Fahlgren Pdf

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.

Motherhood in Literature and Culture

Gill Rye,Victoria Browne,Adalgisa Giorgio,Emily Jeremiah,Abigail Lee Six

Author : Gill Rye,Victoria Browne,Adalgisa Giorgio,Emily Jeremiah,Abigail Lee Six
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317235477

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Motherhood in Literature and Culture by Gill Rye,Victoria Browne,Adalgisa Giorgio,Emily Jeremiah,Abigail Lee Six Pdf

Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate motherhood as both institution and lived experience. It has a particular focus on literature, but it also includes essays that examine representations of motherhood in philosophy, art, social policy, and film. The book’s driving contention is that, through intersecting with other fields and disciplines, literature and the study of literature have an important role to play in nuancing dialogues around motherhood, by offering challenging insights and imaginative responses to complex problems and experiences. This is demonstrated throughout the volume, which covers a range of topics including: discursive and visual depictions of pregnancy and birth; the impact of new reproductive technologies on changing family configurations; the relationship between mothering and citizenship; the shaping of policy imperatives regarding mothering and disability; and the difficult realities of miscarriage, child death, violence, and infanticide. The collection expands and complicates hegemonic notions of motherhood, as the authors map and analyse shifting conceptions of maternal subjectivity and embodiment, explore some of the constraining and/or enabling contexts in which mothering takes place, and ask searching questions about what it means to be a ‘mother’ in Europe today. It will be of interest not only to those working in gender, women’s and feminist studies, but also to scholars in literary and cultural studies, and those researching in sociology, criminology, politics, psychology, medical ethics, midwifery, and related fields.

Raising Happiness

Christine Carter, Ph.D.

Author : Christine Carter, Ph.D.
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345515629

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Raising Happiness by Christine Carter, Ph.D. Pdf

What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course! Fortunately, a wide array of scientific studies show that happiness is a learned behavior, a muscle we can help our children build and maintain. Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate do’s and don’ts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, boils the process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing steps. With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting—how best to discipline, get kids to school and activities on time, and get dinner on the table—as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence. In these 10 key steps, she helps you interact confidently and consistently with your kids to foster the skills, habits, and mindsets that will set the stage for positive emotions now and into their adolescence and beyond. Inside you will discover • the best way avoid raising a brat—changing bad habits into good ones • tips on how to change your kids’ attitude into gratitude • the trap of trying to be perfect—and how to stay clear of its pitfalls • the right way to praise kids—and why too much of the wrong kind can be just as bad as not enough • the spirit of kindness—how to raise kind, compassionate, and loving children • strategies for inspiring kids to do boring (but necessary) tasks—and become more self-motivated in the process Complete with a series of “try this” tips, secrets, and strategies, Raising Happiness is a one-of-a-kind resource that will help you instill joy in your kids—and, in the process, become more joyful yourself.

Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes

Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko

Author : Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772583472

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Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities.

Room

Emma Donoghue

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350419162

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Room by Emma Donoghue Pdf

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

Monstrous Mothers

Andrea O'Reilly

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1772583499

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Monstrous Mothers by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf

Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mytholog.

Recreating Motherhood

Barbara Katz Rothman

Author : Barbara Katz Rothman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0813528747

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Recreating Motherhood by Barbara Katz Rothman Pdf

Presents a woman-centered, class-sensitive way of understanding motherhood and the family in the face of scientific advances in genetics and fertility technology. Claims that the real needs of people in families have been swept aside in an attempt to reduce the complex process of human reproduction to a clinical event controlled by medical technology. Suggests ways to accomplish social and legal changes that would allow technological advances and evolving gender roles to affirm the mother-child relationship without cost to women's identities. This edition contains a new chapter on how advances in reproductive technology and genetics combine with new marketing to pose troubling social questions. Originally published in 1989 by W. W. Norton and Company. The author teaches sociology at the City University of New York. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Troubling Motherhood

Troubling Motherhood by Lucy B. Hall,Laura J. Shepherd Pdf

Troubling Maternity by Emily Jeremiah Pdf

Motherhood by Sheila Heti Pdf

Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes by Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko Pdf

Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence by Deniz Ülke Arıboğan,Hamoon Khelghat-Doost Pdf

Mothering a Bodied Curriculum by Stephanie Springgay,Debra Freedman Pdf

Bearing Witness by Karen O'Donnell,Katie Cross Pdf

The Maternal Instincts Mysteries Special Collection: Bundle of Trouble, Motherhood is Murder, Formula for Murder by Diana Orgain Pdf

Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing by Helena Wahlström Henriksson,Anna Williams,Margaretha Fahlgren Pdf

Motherhood in Literature and Culture by Gill Rye,Victoria Browne,Adalgisa Giorgio,Emily Jeremiah,Abigail Lee Six Pdf

Raising Happiness by Christine Carter, Ph.D. Pdf

Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes by Andrea O'Reilly,Abigail L. Palko Pdf

Room by Emma Donoghue Pdf

Monstrous Mothers by Andrea O'Reilly Pdf

Recreating Motherhood by Barbara Katz Rothman Pdf

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