New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (dislodging the Unthinkable)
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New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (dislodging the Unthinkable)

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New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (dislodging the Unthinkable)

About this book

New Maternalisms": Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable) explores the perceptions of those who engage in and/or research motherwork or the labour of caregiving, and how mothers view themselves in comparison to broader normative understandings of motherwork. Here, the anthology serves to deconstruct motherwork by highlighting and dislodging it from maternal ideology, the socially constructed "good mom" (read as "sacrificial mom") and feminized hegemonic discourse. The objective of the edited volume, then, is to critically explore how we experience motherwork, what motherwork might mean, and how motherwork impacts and is impacted by the communities in which we live. Such an examination involves contesting dominant ways of thinking about motherwork.

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Yes, you can access New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (dislodging the Unthinkable) by Roksana Badruddoja in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Feminism & Feminist Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Demeter Press
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781772580648
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Feminism & Feminist Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. I. THE MOTHERWORK OF MOTHERING
  10. 1. Unauthorized Mothering
  11. 2. Bumpy Road, Bumpy Road, Smooth(ing the) Road
  12. 3. “God Gives Us Sons, but the Government Takes Them Away”1
  13. 4. Reframing the Street-Based Sex Worker as a “Good Mother”
  14. 5. Out of Time
  15. 6. How Much Time Makes a “Good Mother”?
  16. 7. Motherwork in the Margins
  17. II. REPRESENTATION
  18. 8. Breastfeeding in the Public Arena
  19. 9. “Baby-Friendly” or “Mother-Hostile”?
  20. 10. Quiet as It’s Kept
  21. 11. Power(ing) Mothers
  22. 12. When Chickens Come Home to Signify in Our Mothers’ Gardens
  23. III. FRAMING, NAMING AND STRUCTURES
  24. 13. Voices of “Obstetric Violence”
  25. 14. The Politics of Labour
  26. 15. Maternal Art Practices
  27. 16. Caregiving, Human Capital, and Genetically Engineered Children in the 21st Century
  28. IV. A POLITICS OF POSSIBILITY: NOW AND BEYOND
  29. 17. The Fantasy of Normative Motherhood
  30. 18. Production and Reproduction
  31. 19. Toward a Theory and Praxis of Sustainable Feminism
  32. About the Contributors