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Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Valerie Heffernan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000258076
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century by : Valerie Heffernan

Download or read book Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century written by Valerie Heffernan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect on and influence the cultural meaning of motherhood in the contemporary era. Mindful of the fact that the images of motherhood that we see in popular media, on television, and in literature are not mere background noise to our daily lives, the various chapters explore how they influence our understanding of what it means to be a mother, affect our expectations of motherhood and of mothers, frame our experience of mothering, and even inform our reproductive decisions. Including insights from media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and the performing and visual arts, this book explores how engaging with diverse representations of mothers and mothering contributes to a broader and deeper interdisciplinary understanding of how motherhood is constructed in our time. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.

Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater

Author : F. Becker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113702710X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater written by F. Becker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature

Author : Abigail L. Palko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137600748
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Book Synopsis Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature by : Abigail L. Palko

Download or read book Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature written by Abigail L. Palko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argues that Irish and Caribbean literary representations of non-normative mothering practices do not reflect transgressive or dangerous mothering but are rather cultural negotiations of the definition of a good mother. This original book demonstrates the sustained commitment to countering the dominant ideologies of maternal self-sacrifice foundational to both Irish and Caribbean nationalist rhetoric, offering instead the possibility of integrating maternal agency into an effective model of female citizenship.

21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence

Author : Rachel Williamson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031393511
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis 21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence by : Rachel Williamson

Download or read book 21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence written by Rachel Williamson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother’s capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap.

Transnational Black Dialogues

Author : Markus Nehl
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839436664
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Black Dialogues written by Markus Nehl and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.

Single Parents

Author : Berit Åström
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030713113
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Single Parents written by Berit Åström and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing

Author : Helena Wahlström Henriksson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031172116
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing by : Helena Wahlström Henriksson

Download or read book Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing written by Helena Wahlström Henriksson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.

Twenty-first-Century Motherhood

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149662
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-first-Century Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrea O'Reilly's coverage is comprehensive. Her book reflects current trends in the field, particularly the examination of reproductive technologies and the Internet and their implications for motherhood and mothering."---Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz, writer and editor of the Global Mama column for Girl with Pen (www.girlwpen.com) --

Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families

Author : Yifat Eitan-Persico
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003856136
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families written by Yifat Eitan-Persico and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book updates the Oedipus complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psychoanalytic treatment and our understanding of queer families. Growing evidence during the past few decades indicates that children who grow up in same-sex families adapt well. These findings, which do not conform to the predictions of Oedipal theory, expose the theory’s biases, and call for reexamination of its premises. This book based on ground-breaking research and pursues a methodical investigation of the characteristics of the same-sex families that defy the expectations of Oedipal theory. Furnished with vivid illustrations, it invites the reader to engage actively in the interpretive effort and presents a diverse and complex story about kinship, opening a window onto a rich world of infantile phantasies and parents’ psychological conflicts, at the fascinating intersection of the personal and the social. Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, educators and policymakers, same-sex parents, and parents who were assisted by gamete donation.

Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood

Author : Zeynep B. Gürtin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000333388
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood written by Zeynep B. Gürtin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the global expansion of reproductive technologies, there are ever more ways to create a family, and more family types than ever before. This book explores the experiences of those persons - whether single, in a couple, or part of collective co-parenting arrangements; whether hetero- or homosexual; whether cis- or transgender - who are creating what has been termed ‘new family forms’ with reproductive ‘assistance’. Drawing on qualitative research from around the world, the book is particularly anchored in two bodies of social science scholarship - sociological and anthropological inquiries into the cultural impact of reproductive technologies on the one hand, and parenting culture studies on the other. It seeks to create fertile conversations between these scholarships, highlighting the intersections in the ways we think about conceiving and caring for children in today’s ‘reproductive landscape’. Focusing specifically on persons whose reproductive journeys do not conform to dominant scripts, the book traces the many ways in which intentions, expectations and technological developments contribute to changing and enduring conceptions of good parenthood in the twenty-first century. Taking a holistic perspective, the book presents deep insights into the experiences not only of (intending) parents, but also of donors, surrogates, medical professionals and activists. The collection will be of interest to an international readership of scholars of gender, reproduction, parenting and family life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.

Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Alcira Mariam Alizade
Publisher : Karnac Books
ISBN 13 : 9781855753693
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Motherhood in the Twenty-first Century written by Alcira Mariam Alizade and published by Karnac Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at women in their maternal role. In the twenty-first century, with its frenzy and heterogeneity, where the mixture of modernity and post-modernity is not without danger, motherhood cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations. Psycho-history, the accumulation and variety of psychoanalytic theories of femininity and motherhood, the contribution of gender studies, cross-disciplinary research, and listening to what our patients have to say'all this has yielded, in the past few decades, much controversial data that challenges orthodox classical thinking on the role and function of women as mothers.Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that, to some extent, subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women; motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy working mothers); teenage motherhood in which there is no true awareness of the maternal function; motherhood in couples of homosexual women; men who take upon themselves the maternal function (men-mothers); complex motherhood by virtue of the multiple variants which have nowadays become possible thanks to new reproductive techniques; shared motherhood; surrogate motherhood; sublimated motherhood; and perverse motherhood.The Contributors: H. Harsch, Giovanna Ambrosio, Estela Welldon, Toni Heineman, Ehrenfeld Diane, Joan Raphael-Leff, Ruth Axelrod, Leticia Glocer, Sylvie Faure-Pragier, Guignard Florence, Mariam Alizade, Bleichmar Emilce, and Teresa Lartigue Leisse de Lustgarten.

Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Author : Jenifer Buckley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319538357
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature by : Jenifer Buckley

Download or read book Gender, Pregnancy and Power in Eighteenth-Century Literature written by Jenifer Buckley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education, and creative imagination. Exploring medical, economic, moral, and literary ramifications, this book engages critically with the notion that a pregnant woman could alter the development of her foetus with the power of her thoughts and feelings. Eighteenth-century authors sought urgently to define, understand and control the concept of maternal imagination as they responded to and provoked fundamental questions about female intellect and the relationship between mind and body. Interrogating the multiple models of maternal imagination both separately and as a holistic set of socio-cultural components, the author uncovers the discourse of maternal imagination across eighteenth-century drama, popular print, medical texts, poetry and novels. This overdue rehabilitation of the pregnant woman in literature is essential reading for scholars of the eighteenth century, gender and literary history.

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

Author : Barbara Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521004176
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination by : Barbara Taylor

Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination written by Barbara Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft s thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain s radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft s feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft s works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.

Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature

Author : Madalina Armie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000832147
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature by : Madalina Armie

Download or read book Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature written by Madalina Armie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exploration of multiple wounds, inflicted on both body and mind (Caruth 1996, 3) and the soul of Irish women from Northern Ireland and the Republic within a contemporary context, and in literary works written at the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond. These artistic manifestations connect tradition and modernity, debunk myths, break the silence with the exposure of uncomfortable realities, dismantle stereotypes and reflect reality with precision. Women’s issues and female experiences depicted in contemporary fiction may provide an explanation for past and present gender dynamics, revealing a pathway for further renegotiation of gender roles and the achievement of equilibrium and equality between sexes. These works might help to seal and heal wounds both old and new and offer solutions to the quandaries of tomorrow.

Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile

Author : Cynthia Robinson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271054107
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile written by Cynthia Robinson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An interdisciplinary reassessment of the creation and reception of religious imagery, and of its place in the devotional practices of Castilian Christians, situated against the broader panorama of Spanish culture in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Portrait of the Artist's Mother

Author : Fiona Place
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925581751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of the Artist's Mother written by Fiona Place and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a memoir and an examination of the politics of disability. The author describes the pressure from medical institutions to undergo screening during pregnancy and assumptions that a child with Trisomy 21 should not live, even though people with Down syndrome do live rich lives. Years later, Fiona's son, Fraser, has become an artist. His prize-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Sydney and Canberra. How does a mother get from the grieving silence of the birthing room through the horrified comments of other mothers to the applause at gallery openings? This is a story of commitment to the idea that all people, including those who are 'less than perfect, ' have a right to be welcomed into this increasingly imperfect world.

Maternal Theory

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772584037
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Maternal Theory written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, The Second Edition of Maternal Theory: Essential Readings introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 60 chapters the 2nd edition includes two sections: the first with the classic texts by Adrienne Rich, Nancy Chodorow, Sara Ruddick, Alice Walker, Barbara Katz Rothman, bell hooks, Sharon Hays, Patricia Hill-Collins, Audre Lorde, Daphne de Marneffe, Judith Warner, Patrice diQinizio, Susan Maushart, and many more. The second section includes thirty new chapters on vital and new topics including Trans Parenting, Non-Binary Parenting, Queer Mothering, Matricentric Feminism, Normative Motherhood, Maternal Subjectivity, Maternal Narratology, Maternal Ambivalence, Maternal Regret, Monstrous Mothers, The Migrant Maternal, Reproductive Justice, Feminist Mothering, Feminist Fathering, Indigenous Mothering, The Digital Maternal, The Opt-Out Revolution, Black Motherhoods, Motherlines, The Motherhood Memoir, Pandemic Mothering, and many more. Maternal Theory is essential reading for anyone interested in motherhood as experience, ideology, and identity.