The Maternal in Creative Work

Forward by Lisa Baraitser; Preamble by Valerie Walkerdine; Chapter 1: Maternal art practice: emerging field of artistic enquiry into motherhood, care and time; Part I: Intergenerational maternal discussions; Chapter 2: Feminist intergenerational inheritance: a conversation; Chapter 3: Maternal Metaphors I and II: a labour of motherlove; Chapter 4: A cord that is never done away with: an aesthetic ontology of the pre-birth scene with Francesca Woodman and Bracha L. Ettinger; Chapter 5: Prisms of mourning: gender, justice and hope: Carrie Mae Weems' Colored People, 1989-1990; Chapter 6: The Mothernists; Chapter 7: A.M.M.A.A. - The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia; Part II: Encountering the maternal in artistic practice; Chapter 8: Blueprint for a ghost; Chapter 9: Maternal time travel: epistolary praxis as intergenerational care work; Chapter 10: A mother's work: a mother/daughter, seamstress/fibre artist's merging practice and politics; Chapter 11: The mother artist in the age of performance reproduction; Chapter 12: Returning to ourselves: Medea/Mothers' Clothes and Patience one decade on; Chapter 13: Unravelling family fictions: Stories We Tell, Daughter Rite and My Life Without Me; Part III: Maternal future: Interrupting the field; Chapter 14: One for Sorrow: the collaborative work of mother and not-yet-mother; Chapter 15: Identity through injury: contemporary adoption and the unfit working class mother; Chapter 16: The motherhood imperative: fertility, feminism, art; Chapter 17: Drawing as a creative exploration of 'circumstantial childlessness'; Chapter 18: Becoming ordinary: making homosexuality more palatable on TV; Afterwords: mothering the future