Psychologies of Mothering:
Literacy and Literature
Will be published approx. on 25. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-77258-598-8 (ISBN)
Description
As we become readers and literate beings, we enter new spaces, learning not only the decoding and encoding of words but also walking into the world of texts and literature. And as we move through time-- and time, undeniably, moves through us-- we co-editors continue to agree on this shared vulnerability: All human life on the planet is born of woman. The one unifying, incontrovertible experience shared by all women and men is that months-long period spent unfolding inside a woman's body ... most of us first know both love and disappointment, power and tenderness, in the person of a woman. (Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born, 1976). This 21st Century collection ranges from academic analyses in literacy and literature to personal narratives or " momoirs." They discuss mothers' psychological senses of self and experiences of the world, as seen in literacy and literature, as well as the role of mothers and the psychological impact of mothering, within these intersecting areas of expression.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77258-598-8 (9781772585988)
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Dr. Kristen Ferguson is a Professor, the Dr. Elizabeth Thorn Chair in Literacy, and Interim Associate Dean in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University in North Bay. She teaches Language Arts and Literacy Education. Her research interests include elementary and post-secondary literacy education, literacy coaching, and stress and coping in teaching, alongside mothering scholarship informed by her experiences as a mother of three. Dr. Laurie Kruk is a Professor of English Studies at Nipissing University. She has published The Voice Is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (2003) and Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (2016). She has also published three poetry collections: Theories of the World (1992), Loving the Alien (2006) and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (2012). In terms of Munro scholarship, she has recently published " The Children Leave: Maternal Abandonment in Two Alice Munro Stories" in Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections, ed. Andrea O' Reilly (Demeter 202