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The Missing Mother
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This collection explores the concept of the Missing Mother from two inter-related standpoints: the mother as absent in society and the mother as absent in a woman' s selfhood. The first perspective considers why and how the mother/mothering is disregarded, discounted, or dismissed in art, literature, culture, policy, and law while the second perspective explores why and how a woman has marginalized, lost, forgotten, forfeited, or abandoned her individual maternal identity. Whether it is society that erases the maternal or a woman who forsakes it, the aim of this collection is to consider the why, how, what, who, and where of the mechanics of missing mother in both society and self. This collection considers reasons for this disavowal and disappearance of the maternal and shows how mothers can and do resist to recover and reclaim the maternal in society and self. Overall, this collection seeks to uncover and reveal the mother so marginalized and maligned in and by patriarchal culture and to show how women may find the missing mother in society and self and achieve empowerment in doing so.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Mom’s Room
- Heart of Fool’s Gold
- Section I The Missing Mother in Society
- 1. Absent(ed) Mothers in Ireland and Elsewhere: Erasures of Maternity in Adoption Law, Policy, and Literature
- 2. The Missing Maternal Body in the Narratives of Young Catholic and Muslim Mothers in Poland
- 3. The Missing Mother: Feminism’s Ghettoization of Artists with Children
- 4. Unseen and Unheard: How the Histories of Missing Mothers Informed the Aprons of Power Performances
- 5. Art’s Otherwised Orphans: Conceiving the Disoeuvre, Recognising Art’s Cultural Mothers
- 6. Mother Ireland and Missing Mothers: Staging Maternal Encounters in Alanna O’Kelly’s The Country Blooms, a Garden and a Grave (1990–1996)
- 7. The Regenerative Potential of Myth in Reconstituting the Missing Mother
- Section II The Missing Mother in the Self
- 8. Critiquing, Correcting, Defying, and Displacing Normative Motherhood:
- 9. The Missing Mother in King Lear
- 10. Fictions of Maternity: Reading and Rewriting the Mother in Three Narratives of the Abandoned Wife
- 11. Making Masculine Maternity Visible in A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch
- 12. Mother to the Other
- 13. Pregnancy, Postpartum, and OnlyFans: Missing and Absented Performances of Motherhood
- Notes on Contributors
- Deepest appreciation to Demeter’s monthly Donors