Mothers under fire : mothering in conflict areas /

"Mothers Under Fire: Mothering in Conflict Areas examines the experiences of women mothering in conflict areas. The aim of this collection is to engage with the nature and meaning of motherhood and mothering during times of war and/or in zones experiencing the threat of war. The essays in the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Sgoutas, Arlene, 1966- (Autor, Editor ), Takševa, Tatjana, 1970- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2015]
Temas:
Mothers > Social conditions.
Mothers > Violence against.
Motherhood.
Social conflict.
Women and war.
Children and war.
Mother and child.
Mères > Conditions sociales.
Mères > Violence envers.
Maternité.
Femmes et guerre.
Enfants et guerre.
Mère et enfant.
maternity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: How conflict shapes motherhood and motherwork / Tatjana Taks̆eva and Arlene Sgoutas
  • Part I. Violence, conflict, and mothering re-constructed
  • Negotiating risk: exploring the experiences of mothers during the conflict in Eastern Sri Lanka / Rebecca Walker
  • Holding everything together: Palestinian mothers under occupation / Bree Akesson
  • Giving birth in war-torn Afghanistan / Carol Mann
  • Mothering in the context of isolation and insecurity: tracing the experiences of young women formerly associated with armed groups in Colombia / Lindsay Jones and Myriam Denov
  • Maternal pedagogies in Swat Valley, Pakistan: mothers' perspectives on faith, Jihad, and peace / Lubna N. Chaudhry
  • Mother'hood: mothering amidst gang warfare / Liliana Castañeda Rossmann
  • We are also mothers: Rwandan women with children born of genocide / Claudine Umulisa
  • Raising children born of wartime rape in Bosnia: a maternal philosophy perspective / Tatjana Taks̆eva
  • Part II. Immigration, displacement, refuge
  • Fractured mothering: the impact of U.S. and Arizona immigration policies on Mexican immigrant mothers with U.S. and non-U.S. citizen children / Sally Stevens and Rosi Andrade
  • When tragedy is not enough: female Syrian refugees in a new homeland / David Eichert
  • Motherhood out of home and hearth: experiences of Pakistani mothers in displaced families / Anwar Shaheen and Nazish Khan
  • Refugee mothering, resettlement, and mental health / Jacqueline Ciccio Parsons, Rebekah R. Pender and Larry V. Parsons
  • Mothers' decision-making power: a new vision for working with internally displaced people in Uganda and Kenya / Tushabe Wa Tushabe and Brillian Besi Muhonja
  • Part III. Mothers as fighters, activists, resisters
  • Mothers as soldiers: beyond the veil of gendered war / Lidiya Zubytska
  • "The change was very strong": rural Mayan motherhood and activism during the Guatemalan Civil War / Rachel O'Donnell
  • Challenging the official story: Alicia Kozameh, Alicia Partnoy and mother activism during Argentina's dirty wars (1976-1983) / Benay Blend
  • Lamentation in classical antiquity: telling the truth about women, children, and war / Kristina Passman Nielson
  • Blaming the mother: the politics of gender in Cindy Sheehan's protest of the Iraq War / Linda Pershing
  • Conclusions and the way forward / Arlene Sgoutas and Tatjana Taks̆eva.

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