Mothering performance : maternal action / edited by Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Šimić, Lena, editor.

Underwood-Lee, Emily, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis, 2023.

Summary:

"Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of 'performance' and connects it to the idea of 'mothering' as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; it is situated in a specific place, and it is undertaken by specific bodies, marked by experience and context. The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. Presented in three sections, Exchange, Practice, and Solidarity, the book includes international contributions from scholars and artists covering topics including ecology, migration, race, class, history, incarceration, mental health, domestic violence, intergenerational exchange, childcare, and peacebuilding. The collection gathers diverse maternal performance practices and methodologies which address aesthetics, dramaturgy, activism, pregnancy, everyday mothering, and menopause. The book is a great read for artists, maternal health and care professionals, and scholars. Researchers with an interest in feminist performance and motherhood, within the disciplines of performance studies, maternal studies, and women's studies, and all those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of maternal experience, will find much of interest" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Section 1 - Exchange

Chapter 1. Thinking Back Through our Mothers: The Editors in Conversation

Chapter 2. Conversations with Mother Artists on the Dynamics of Support in India

Chapter 3. HomeBody

Chapter 4. Siol Fagu: A Consideration in Four Stories

Chapter 5. Mom, Me, and the Maternal at WorkChapter 6. There Are Other Worlds: Maternal Knowledge Beyond Borders

Section 2 - Practice

Chapter 7. Dramaturgies of Support and Interruption in the Process of Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth Notnow Collective

Chapter 8. Gravida, the Weight and Wait of Pregnancy to Mothering Transformation: A Performance Exploring Traumatic Memory and the Energy of Creation

Chapter 9. Motherswitch

Chapter 10. Did I request thee, Maker, from my minced meat to mould me infant? Or MANIFESTO FOR A MATERNAL AESTH-ETHICS, Proposal for "PROVOCATION and PRACTICE"

Chapter 11. Maternal Poetics of Care in Plastic Spaces

Chapter 12. Claiming Spaces: Aprons of Power-Places of Power performances

Chapter 13. Who Does she Think she is? Kate Middleton?! Leaky Escapes in Un-classy Maternal Performance

Section 3 - Solidarity

Chapter 14. Physical and Symbolic Loss: Composite Monologues of Women Parenting While Incarcerated

Chapter 15. Performing and Transforming the Maternal: A Reflexive Inquiry using Digital Storytelling for Mutual Learning

Chapter 16. Weaving Enfleshed Citizenship (M)Otherwise

Chapter 17. Despatches from the Front: Midwifery in a Pandemic

Chapter 18. Maternal Performance as Peacebuilding

Conclusion: On Sustaining Mothering Performance.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.