Everyday World- Making: Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering
Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering
Published on 1. January 2018
341 pages
978-1-77258-154-6 (ISBN)
Description
This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces to question, challenge, and re-conceptualize mothering through the lens of affect, and affect through the lens of mothering. The collection also aims to explore less examined mothering experiences such as failure, disgust, and ambivalence in order to challenge normative paradigms and narratives surrounding mothers and mothering. The authors in this collection demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities opened up by a simultaneous consideration of affect and mothering, thereby broadening our understanding of the complexities and nuances of the always changing experiences of world-making.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- The Everyday World of Affect and Mothering
- Sisterly Conversation
- Becoming Mother, Performing Mother
- milk
- Navigating the Waters of Early Motherhood
- A Poetics of Maternal Failure
- Objects of a Maternal Haunting
- Empty Maternal
- The "Dark Side" of Mothering
- That Baby Will Cost You
- Blood, Mud, Poop, and Vomit
- Unforgivable or Outlaw Emotions?
- fail
- Blurring Boundaries, Manoeuvring Motherhood
- Anishinaabe Fasting
- "Mothering the Mother"
- Instinct, Expertise, Connection
- Families We Don't Choose
- Sisterly Conversation
- About the Contributors
