Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19

Dispatches from the Pandemic

Fiona J Green, Andrea O'Reilly

• Publisher: Demeter Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781772583441
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

There has been little public discussion on the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mothers, or a public acknowledgement that mothering is frontline work in this pandemic. This collection of 45 chapters and with 70 contributors is the first to explore the impact of the pandemic on mothers' care and wage labour in the context of employment, schooling, communities, families, and the relationships of parents and children. With a global perspective and from the standpoint of single, partnered, queer, racialized, Indigenous, economically disadvantaged, disabled, and birthing mothers, the volume examines the increasing complexity and demands of childcare, domestic labour, elder care, and home schooling under the pandemic protocols; the intricacies and difficulties of performing wage labour at home; the impact of the pandemic on mothers' employment; and the strategies mothers have used to manage the competing demands of care and wage labour under COVID-19. By way of creative art, poetry, photography, and creative writing along with scholarly research, the collection seeks to make visible what has been invisibilized and render audible what has been silenced: the care and crisis of motherwork through and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• Section I
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Section II
• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen
• Chapter Fifteen
• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen
• Chapter Eighteen
• Chapter Nineteen
• Chapter Twenty
• Chapter Twenty One
• Chapter Twenty Two
• Chapter Twenty Three
• Chapter Twenty Four
• Chapter Twenty Five
• Chapter Twenty Six
• Section III
• Chapter Twenty Seven
• Chapter Twenty Eight
• Chapter Twenty Nine
• Chapter Thirty
• Chapter Thirty One
• Chapter Thirty Two
• Chapter Thirty Three
• Chapter Thirty Four
• Chapter Thirty Five
• Chapter Thirty Six
• Chapter Thirty Seven
• Chapter Thirty Eight
• Chapter Thirty Nine
• Chapter Forty
• Chapter Forty One
• Chapter Forty Two
• Chapter Forty Three
• Chapter Forty Four
• Chapter Forty Five
• Notes on Contributors
• Deepest appreciation to Demeter’s monthly Donors