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| Title: | Mother Outlaws
: Theories & Practices of Empowered Mothering |
| Author: | Dr Andrea O'Reilly |
| ISBN: | 0889614466 : 9780889614468 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 165x240mm |
| Pages: | 441 |
| Weight: | .732 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - January 2004 |
| List Price: | 24.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Womens studies |
Feminist scholars of motherhood distinguish between mothering and motherhood, and argue that the latter is a patriarchal institution that is oppressive to women. Few scholars, however, have considered how mothering, as a female defined and centred experience, may be a site of empowerment for women. This collection is the first to do so. The book examines how mothers imagine and implement theories and practices of mothering that are empowering to women. Central to this inquiry is the recognition that mothers and children benefit when the mother lives her life, and practices mothering, from a position of agency, authority, authenticity, and autonomy. The collection has five sections: Feminist Mothering, Lesbian Mothering, African-American Mothering, Mothers and Daughters, and Mothers and Sons.
Feminist mothers: Successfully negotiating the tensions between motherhood as "institution" and "experience" Resistance as a site of empowerment: The journey away from maternal sacrifice; "We were conspirators, outlaws from the institution of motherhood": Mothering against Motherhood and the possibility of empowered maternity for mothers and their children; The (male) advantage of a feminist mother; Telling our stories: Feminist mothers and daughters; From perfect housewife to fishnet stockings and not quite back again: One mother's story of leaving home; Imag(in)ing the queer lesbian family; Our kids in the hall: Lesbian families negotiate the public school system; Lesbian mothers and the law of custody, access and child support; Lesbian non-biological mothering: Negotiating an (un)familiar existence; A politics of the heart: African American womanist thought on mothering; Black women' s mothering in a historical and contemporary perspective: Understanding the past, forging the future; Community mothering: The relationship between mothering and the community work of black women; "You'll become a lioness": African-American women talk about mothering; Reflections on the mutuality of mothering: Women, children and other mothering; Across the divide: Contemporary Anglo-American feminist theory on the mother-daughter relationship; The global self-esteem of an African-American adolescent female and her relationship with her mother; Don't blame mother: Then and now; Mother of mothers, daughter of daughters: Reflections on the motherline; A daughters' praise poem for her mother: Historicising community activism and racial uplift among South African women; In black and white: Anglo-American and African-American feminist perspectives on mothers and sons"; Bringing our boyz to men: Black men's reflections on their mothers' child rearing influences; Swimming against the tide: Feminists' accounts of mothering sons; Raising relational boys; A mum and her son: Thoughts on feminist mothering.
