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Title Mothers at the Margins : Stories of Challenge, Resistance and Love / editied by Lisa Raith, Jenny Jones and Marie Porter
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
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Contents Introduction / Lisa Raith, Jenny Jones and Marie Porter -- Chapter One This Skin I'm In: From the Margins to the Centre / Nombasa Williams -- Chapter Two To Be Two: Critically Race-ing and E/Racing Myself as a Non-Aboriginal Woman and Mother to Aboriginal Children / Liz Mackinlay -- Chapter Three Natsume Soseki, Mother and Gender / Miyuki Amano -- Chapter Four Maternal Questions for the Modern Woman: Amanda Lohrey's Radical Script / Bronwen Levy -- Chapter Five Caught in the Margins: Childlessness as an Unexpected Consequence of Life Choices / Lois Tonkin -- Chapter Six Into the Void and the Return of the Lost Mother / Christina Houen -- Chapter Seven Mothers in Crisis: Mothers and the Child Protection System / Tamara Walsh and Heather Douglas -- Chapter Eight Picking up the Pieces: Mothering a Young Adult-child with a Mental Illness / Jennifer Jones -- Chapter Nine Lost in Disability: Dis-abled by Love / Marie Porter -- Chapter Ten "I Just Did it for the Kids": Mothering in the Context of Living with an Increased Risk of Breast and Ovarian Cancers / Alison McEwen -- Chapter Eleven Support, Judgement, and Marginality: The Shifting Terrains of the Mother Country / Lisa Raith -- Chapter Twelve When Feminist Ideas Are Hijacked: Women's Experience of the Contemporary Childcare Landscape / Nonie Harris and Beth Tinning -- Chapter Thirteen Telling Lies to Little Girls: Motherhood, Girlhood and Identity / Ryl Harrison -- Chapter Fourteen Breastfeeding "in Public": A Personal and Political Memoir / Petra Bueskens -- Chapter Fifteen In From the Margins: Catholic Mothers' Matrescent Experience Reappropriated / Cristina Gomez -- Chapter Sixteen Narratives of Mother-Daughter Reconciliation: New Possibilities in Japan / Tomoko Aoyama -- Chapter Seventeen "Unruly Women and Semiotic Spaces": Jay Verney's A Mortality Tale / Vivienne Mutter -- Chapter Eighteen Cultural Aspects of Birthing: A Training Module for Midwives Caring for Pregnant Women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds / Therese T.H. Morris -- Chapter Nineteen What Does a Feminist Mother Look Like? / Andrea Fox
Summary In the last two decades, maternal scholarship has grown exponentially. Despite this, however, there are still numerous areas which remain under-researched, one of which is the experiences of marginalised mothers. Far from being a sentimental, feel-good account of mothering, this collection speaks with the voices of mothers through the application of a matricentric lens. In particular, it speaks with the voices of those mothers who feel alienated or stigmatised; mothers who have been rendered ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Motherhood.
Mothers.
Mothers
maternity.
mothers.
Feminism & feminist theory.
Gender studies: women.
Sociology: family & relationships.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Motherhood
Mothers
Form Electronic book
Author Raith, Lisa, editor.
Jones, Jenny (Ethicist), editor.
Porter, Marie, editor.
ISBN 9781443879163
1443879169