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Mothers without their children /
Conceiving of and representing mothers without their children seems so paradoxical as to be almost impossible. How can we define a mother in the absence of her child? This compelling volume explores these and other questions from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, examining experiences, repr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford, Ontario :
Demeter Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Researching and reimagining mothers without their children / Charlotte Beyer
- Part I. Textualities and ambiguous mothering status. Chapter 1. The birth mother without child in Joanna Murray-Smith's Pennsylvania Avenue / Emma Dalton ; Chapter 2. For the love of : A motherline of state violence and affective residues / Lizbett Benge
- Part II. Institutional frontiers and othered mothers. Chapter 3. "It was like my soul was back" : Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood during incarceration / Brittnie Aiello ; Chapter 4. Mothering interrupted : Mother-child separation via incarceration in England and Ireland / Sinead O'Malley and Lucy Baldwin ; Chapter 5. "No girl could keep her baby" : Depictions of Irish mother and baby homes in June Goulding's memoirs, The Light in the Window / Charlotte Beyer ; Chapter 6. Protests and plans : The mothers of Compton Place Ragged School, 1850-1867 / Laura M. Mair
- Part III. Having to live and mother through it : Economic, geographic, political, and racialized inequities ; Chapter 7. Grieving absent children in "Three Seasons" / Kristin Lucas ; Chapter 8. Mothers' voices from the margins : Representation of motherhood in two of Mahasweta Devi's short stories / Indrani Karmakar ; Chapter 9. Towards reproductive justice : Single mothers' activism against the U.S. child welfare system / Shihoko Nakagawa ; Chapter 10. Towards solidarity in mothering at the borderlands : Suggestions for better legal and social treatment of mothers migrating across borders without children to work / Rebecca Jarenko Bromwich
- Part IV. Motherhood reconfigured by death. Chapter 11. Grieving in silence : Repercussions of the family ideal on wormen with pregnancy loss / Sheri McClure ; Chapter 12. The immigrant / Maya Bhave ; Chapter 13. Figure drawing / Rachel O'Donnell ; Chapter 14. Suppress and express : Breastmilk donation and neonatal death / Katherine Carroll and Brydan Lenne
- Part V. Navigating and resisting exile. Chapter 15. "You're not really there" : Mothering on the bordering of identity / Marilyn Preston ; Chapter 16. Newborn custodial loss from the perspective of a midwife / Andrea Lea Robertson.