Tag: Mothering

Free Download From motherhood to mothering : the legacy of Adrienne Rich’s Of woman born By Rich, Adrienne Cecile; O’Reilly, Andrea
2004 | 251 Pages | ISBN: 0791462870 | PDF | 1 MB
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Free Download Stavroula Constantinou, "Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 1032208759 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors investigate the close interrelationship between a woman and her lactating breasts, as well as the social, ideological, theological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, along with their visual and literary representations.

Free Download Kelly W. Guyotte, "Academic Mothering: Fabulating Futures for Higher Education"
English | ISBN: 9004547452 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 43 MB
This book is inspired by academic mothering before and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring diverse enactments of mothering, the authors critique academia’s systemic failures, in the pandemic and beyond, fabulating futures in which mothering is valued and supported.

Free Download Carole Zufferey, "Intersections of Mothering "
English | ISBN: 1032082968 | 2021 | 228 pages | EPUB | 745 KB
This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods.

Free Download Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031172108 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
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.

Free Download Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1978800576 | 308 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research.