Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change

Sarah Marie Wiebe, Carolina Toscano

• Publisher: Demeter Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781772585933
• Year: 2026

Mothers, Mothering and Climate Change is as much about climate change as it is about the importance of community care and intergenerational justice. Considering climate change and mothering, how do we hold space for seemingly conflicting stories, ones that attempt to document and stall an inevitable end while others focus on new beginnings? Can mothering encompass both conditions, be pulled in opposite directions, and exist within this tension? Are we not, yet again, asking mothers to do it all? In response, this collection answers these questions and explores them in an interdisciplinary anthology that brings together voices of concerned matricentric feminist theorists, researchers, and activists from a wide range of disciplines and fields. These include anthropology, women' s and gender studies, cultural studies, literary studies, social sciences and humanities. Creative contributions complement academic writing and include personal essay/reflection, academic essay, memoir, creative non-fiction, diary style, poetry, art, photography, and hybrid genres.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change
• SECTION I POETRY, ARTWORK, AND PHOTOGRAPHY
• Chapter 1 Poetry
• Chapter 2 Watercolour
• Chapter 3 Photography: For the Land, from the Land
• SECTION II MEMOIR AND REFLECTION
• Chapter 4 Mothers of the Scorched Earth: Love in Times of Drought and Flame
• Chapter 5 Fire, Fury, and Feminism: Navigating Motherhood, Womanhood, and Fires in a Changing Climate
• Chapter 6 The Brain on Belief: How the Rhetoric of Environmental and Feminist Movements Shaped My Family Planning
• SECTION III REPRESENTATIONS OF MOTHERING AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN LITERATURE
• Chapter 7 Imagining Motherhood in a Postapocalyptic World: Reifying and Resisting Normative Motherhood in the Climate-Change Novels Clean Air by Sarah Blake and The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
• Chapter 8 From Ecoanxiety to Eco-optimism: Affect, Action, and Mothering amid Climate Chaos in Distancia de rescate
• Chapter 9 “I Am This Animal”: Evolving Ecogothic Motherhood and Femininity in Female Werewolf Texts
• SECTION IV: MOTHERS, MOTHERING, CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESISTANCE
• Chapter 10 ReGeneraphilia: Loving Respect for ReGenerating Life
• Chapter 11 Care-Based Creative Futures: Regenerative Maternal Ethics
• Chapter 12 Water, Oil, Breastmilk: Natural Resources from Mother (Earth)
• Chapter 13 Caught between a Rock and a Hot Place: How Motherscholars Engage in Individual, Collective, or Other (In)Actions to Address Climate Precarity
• Chapter 14 Aunties, Ancestors, and Small Acts: Indigenous Girls’ Lessons on Care in a Time of Crisis
• Chapter 15 Embodied Futures: My Pregnant Body Chooses Hope
• Conclusion Mothering through Climate Change as a Radical Act of Care
• Notes on Contributors
• Deepest appreciation to Demeter’s monthly Donors