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| Title: | Motherhood
: Power & Oppression |
| Author: | Andrea O'Reilly, Marie Porter & Patricia Short |
| ISBN: | 0889614547 : 9780889614543 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Weight: | .432 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - September 2005 |
| List Price: | 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Womens studies |
In feminism, the institution of mothering/motherhood has been a highly contested area in how it relates to the oppression of women. As Adrienne Rich articulated in her classic 1976 book ‘Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution’, although motherhood as an institution is a male-defined site of oppression, women's own experiences of mothering can nonetheless be a source of power. This volume examines four locations wherein motherhood is simultaneously experienced as a site of oppression and of power: embodiment, representation, practice and separation. Motherhood includes psychological, historical, sociological, literary and cultural approaches to inquiry and a wide range of disciplinary perspectives -- qualitative, quantitative, corporeal, legal, religious, fictional, mythological, dramatic and action research. This rich collection not only covers a wide range of subject matter but also illustrates ways of doing feminist research and practice.
Introduction; The Kindest Cut? The Caesarean Section as Turning Point, Australia 1880-1900; Narrating Breasts: Constructions of Contemporary Motherhood(s) In Women's Breastfeeding Stories; Scandalous Practices and Political Performances: Breastfeeding in the City; 'Pax Materna' or Mothers at War with the Empire? Canadian and Australian Perspectives on the Motherhood Debate in the British Empire During the Great War; Mothering and Stress Discourses: A Deconstruction of the Interrelationship of Discourses on Mothering and Stress; A Lesser Woman? Fictional Representations of the Childless Woman; (Mis) Conceptions: The Paradox of Maternal Power and Loss in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Paradise; Human and Divine Mothers in Hinduism; Resistance Narratives From Mothers of Married Daughters in Singapore; Survival Narratives of Ethiopian Jewish Mothers and Daughters in Israel; Down Under Power? Australian Mothering Experiences in the 1950s, 60s; Mothers at Home: Oppressed or Oppressors or Victims of False Dichotomies?; Mothers at the Margins: Singular Identities and Survival; Naming Maternal Alienation; Women of Courage: The Non-Custodial Mother; Abandoning Mothers and Their Children; When Eve Left The Garden: A Modern Tale About Mothers Who Leave Their Families; Conclusion; Index.
