Motherhood and space : configurations of the maternal through politics, home, and the body / edited by Sarah Hardy and Caroline Wiedmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hardy, Sarah Boykin, 1962-

Wiedmer, Caroline Alice, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Mothers--Social conditions.

Mothers.

Physical Description:

xiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary collection explores the complex ways motherhood is experienced by studying the concrete and imaginary spaces mothers inhabit. The authors examine locations for birth, negotiations of domesticity, institutional framings of the mother's world, and maternal metaphors in art and popular culture. Using conceptions of space as a common lens, these essays articulate the interplay between motherhood as a cultural construction and motherhood as a lived experience. The collection as a whole reveals how the spaces of motherhood are varied, changing, and politically charged.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Spaces of Motherhood / Sarah Hardy, Caroline Wiedmer 1

Part I Motherhood and Spaces of Civic Culture

2 MotherSpace: Disciplining through the Material and Discursive / Marsha Marotta 15

3 "Magdalene versus the Nation": Ireland as a Space of Compulsory Motherhood in Edna O'Brien's Down by the River / Sara Gerend 35

4 An Office of One's Own: Stories of Power, Space, and Motherhood in the Swiss Academy / Caroline Wiedmer 55

5 The Maternity Hospital: Blueprint for Redesigning Childbirth / Leslie Kanes Weisman 73

6 The Birthplace / Barbara Katz Rothman, Wendy Simonds 87

7 Closer to Home: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy / Helena Michie, Naomi R. Cahn 105

Part II Motherhood and Spaces of Home

8 House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme / Iris Marion Young 115

9 Black Women and Motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins 149

10 Integrating Home and Wage Workplace: Women's Daily Lives in a Canadian Suburb / Isabel Dyck 161

11 Locating Lesbian Parent Families / Jacqui Gabb 185

12 Like a Mother: Paid "Mother-work" Performed in Private Spaces / Amy Mullin 203

13 "You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away I think": A Case Study of Family Photos, Mothering, and Familial Space / Gillian Rose 221

Part III Motherhood and Spaces of Embodiment

14 Uneasy Spaces: The Domestic Uncanny in Contemporary Installation Art / Fiona Carson 243

15 Winnicott's Maternal Aesthetic: Absorption and Beholding in Potential Space / Ellen Brinks 261

16 Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces / Rebecca Kukla 283

17 Breeding Ambiguity: The Womb as Alien Space in the X-Files / Sarah Hardy 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403967857

OCLC:

60312083