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The Pain Mothers Must Never Expose:
Confronting the Silences of Maternal Life
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In this collection, contributors reject the narrative that suggests that the pain of mothers must never be exposed. They allow their pain to wander outside the frame of the requisite pathos; individual pieces reveal pain to be a complex and intersectional practice that encompasses denial and disenfranchisement where pain is birthed and named; disorientation leading to a search for stable ground; destabilization that inspires non-normative mothering; and discovery as an active stance that transforms intergenerational pain. As contributors take up the challenge of unravelling their stories, they reach for a life-sustaining and hopeful shift in consciousness that allows them to listen to what pain has to offer without judgment; to imagine and create a different future for themselves, their children, and the world; and to let go of maternal pain and suffering as a way of being. Readers will be inspired by raw honesty, authenticity, and willingness to embrace story as a gift to self.
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Yes, you can access The Pain Mothers Must Never Expose: by Michelann Parr in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- A Disclosure, an Apology, and a Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- What do we want from each other
- Introduction
- Part I Denial and Disenfranchisement âBirthing and Naming Pain
- 1. Unadorned Birth
- 2. Replica
- 3. Becoming a Birth Trauma Specialist
- 4. After Birth: After Raoul Fernandesâs Poem âAfter Lydiaâ
- Part II DisorientationâSearching for Stable Ground
- 5. Lines, Your First Smile, Separation Anxiety
- 6. Confronting Ableism as a Disabled Mom1
- 7. I Am a Mother. I Am an Artist
- 8. Motherlines and Maternal Entanglements: Unravelling and Embracing the Multiplicity of Abortion, Embodiment, and the Maternal
- 9. Pandemic and Pandemonium: Emerging from Emergency
- 10. Lingering Regrets Revisited
- Part III Destabilization: Reimagining Non-normative Mothering
- 11. Painâs Wisdom: From Normative to Relational Mothering
- 12. Dragon Mothers: Possibilities and Experiences of Mothers of Children with Incurable Diseases
- 13. Imagining Motherhood in a Post-Apocalyptic World: Reifying and Resisting Normative Motherhood in the Climate-Change Novels Clean Air by Sarah Blake and The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
- Part IV DiscoveryâTransforming Intergenerational Pain and Suffering
- 14. Letting Go: An Exercise in Writing through the Pain
- 15. If You Are a Mother
- 16. Songs for My Daughters
- 17. Quiet as Kept
- 18. One Momma
- Notes on Contributors
- Deepest appreciation to Demeterâs monthly Donors