Performing Maternities
Political, Social and Feminist Enquiry
Will be published approx. on 31. May 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-83595-467-6 (ISBN)
Description
Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the normative, the queer, the transgressive, the joy and the pain of performing maternity. The book asks key questions about the construction of maternal identities and mythologies in the contemporary world, the ways these impact on individuals in different social, economic and sexual identities, and the ways in which - as mothers, writers, artists, parents and grandparents -we can challenge and address those identities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Intellect
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
25 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83595-467-6 (9781835954676)
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Persons
Kate Aughterson is an independent scholar, who has taught in UK universities for the past 30 years and published in areas including feminist theory, early modern culture and contemporary women's fiction.
Jess Moriarty is principal lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK, where she is course leader on the Creative Writing MA and co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.
Jess Moriarty is principal lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK, where she is course leader on the Creative Writing MA and co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.
Content
List of Figures
Introduction - Kate Aughterson
1. Maternal Performance: Relations and Embodiments - Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee
2. Experiencing and Knowing from a Mother/Child 'Us' - Ariel Moy
3. Still Mothering: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love through the Eyes of Bereaved Mothers - Abby Arnold-Patti
4. Mothering in the Peripheries: An Autoethnographic Account of the Challenging Matrescence of a Neurodivergent Woman - Claire Robinson
5. Tensions of Maternity - Steve Ryder and Diana Denton
6. Remember Me? Creative Conversations with Clothes - Jenni Cresswell
7. How to Tell a Tricky Story about Birth Trauma: Transforming My Lived Experience into a Mythical Epic - Michelle Hall and Teresa Izzard
8. Rhetorical Uteri: A Comparative Visual Analysis of Next Nature Network's 'First Artificial Womb for Humans' and Ani Liu's The Surrogacy - Yvette Chairez
9. Seeds from My Grandmother's Womb - Suzi Bamblett
10. Delivering across Geographies: How Faith, Age, Friends, and Space Carry Birthing - Noor Ali
11. 'These Nipples Are Wasted!' - Chan-hyo Jeong
12. Macomere Narratives: Mothering in Higher Education - Janice B. Fournillier
13. Bitter-Sweet Embrace: Documentary Film of Artist-Clinician Sophia Xeros-Constantinides Presenting Her Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibition Exploring the Darker Side of Motherhood - Sophia Xeros-Constantinides
14. Comadreando: Entangling the Web of Our Lives - Freyca Calderon-Berumen and Karla O'Donald
15. Interrogating Constructions of Good/Bad Mothers through Popular Spanish Culture: The Case of Concha Piquer (1908-90) - Mercedes Carbayo-Abengozar
16. Looking for Laura: The Generational Transmission of Sexuality - Valerie Walkerdine
17. Maternal Bodies in the Garden: Transit Spaces - Ruchika Wason Singh
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Kate Aughterson
1. Maternal Performance: Relations and Embodiments - Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee
2. Experiencing and Knowing from a Mother/Child 'Us' - Ariel Moy
3. Still Mothering: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love through the Eyes of Bereaved Mothers - Abby Arnold-Patti
4. Mothering in the Peripheries: An Autoethnographic Account of the Challenging Matrescence of a Neurodivergent Woman - Claire Robinson
5. Tensions of Maternity - Steve Ryder and Diana Denton
6. Remember Me? Creative Conversations with Clothes - Jenni Cresswell
7. How to Tell a Tricky Story about Birth Trauma: Transforming My Lived Experience into a Mythical Epic - Michelle Hall and Teresa Izzard
8. Rhetorical Uteri: A Comparative Visual Analysis of Next Nature Network's 'First Artificial Womb for Humans' and Ani Liu's The Surrogacy - Yvette Chairez
9. Seeds from My Grandmother's Womb - Suzi Bamblett
10. Delivering across Geographies: How Faith, Age, Friends, and Space Carry Birthing - Noor Ali
11. 'These Nipples Are Wasted!' - Chan-hyo Jeong
12. Macomere Narratives: Mothering in Higher Education - Janice B. Fournillier
13. Bitter-Sweet Embrace: Documentary Film of Artist-Clinician Sophia Xeros-Constantinides Presenting Her Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibition Exploring the Darker Side of Motherhood - Sophia Xeros-Constantinides
14. Comadreando: Entangling the Web of Our Lives - Freyca Calderon-Berumen and Karla O'Donald
15. Interrogating Constructions of Good/Bad Mothers through Popular Spanish Culture: The Case of Concha Piquer (1908-90) - Mercedes Carbayo-Abengozar
16. Looking for Laura: The Generational Transmission of Sexuality - Valerie Walkerdine
17. Maternal Bodies in the Garden: Transit Spaces - Ruchika Wason Singh
Notes on Contributors