Everyday world-making : toward an understanding of affect and mothering / edited by Julia Lane, Eleonora Joensuu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lane, Julia, 1986- editor.

Joensuu, Eleonora, 1983- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Psychological aspects.

Motherhood.

Affect (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2018]

Summary:

"This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces to question, challenge, and re-conceptualize motherhood through the lens of affect, and affect through the lens of motherhood. The collection also aims to explore less examined mothering experiences such as failure, disgust, and ambivalence in order to challenge normative paradigms and narratives surrounding mothers and mothering. The authors in this collection demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities opened up by a simultaneous consideration of affect and mothering, thereby broadening our understanding of the complexities and nuances of the always changing experiences of affect and mothering."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The everyday world of affect and mothering : an introduction / Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu

Sisterly conversation : considering affect with and through the pregnant and birthing body / Eleonora Joensuu and Sofia Joensuu

Becoming mother, performing mothering / Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu

milk / Kari Marken

Navigating the waters of early motherhood : somatic awareness, creative expression, and being held / Stephanie Theodora Park

A poetics of maternal failure / Julia Lane

Objects of a maternal haunting / Anna Johnson

Empty maternal : simulating maternal care in Marina Abramović's The artist is present / Justyna Wierzchowska

The "dark side" of mothering / Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu

That baby will cost you : / An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy Sandra L. Faulkner

Blood, mud, poop, and vomit : reimagining disgust through the mother-child relationship / Eleonora Joensuu

Unforgivable or outlaw emotions? the heart of maternal darkness in Grazia Verasani's From Medea / Alessandro Castellini

fail / Kari Marken

Blurring boundaries, manoeuvring motherhood / Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu

Anishinaabe fasting : respecting the power of creation / Nicole Bell

"Mothering the mother" : doulas and the affective space / Brenda Benaglia

Instinct, expertise, connection : the affective experience of mother's intuition / Emily Sadowski

Families we don't choose : affects of resisting the institution of motherhood / Lisa Poole

Sisterly conversation : considering affect through mothering experiences / Julia Lane and Trang Do.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77258-154-2

OCLC:

1022080581