Motherhood in precarious times / edited by Anita Dolman, Barbara Schwartz-Bechet, and Dannielle Joy Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolman, Anita

Contributor:

Dolman, Anita, editor.

Schwartz-Bechet, Barbara, editor.

Davis, Dannielle Joy, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Social aspects.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2018]

Summary:

Parenting brings countless hopes and worries. But when external factors create fear and cast a shadow long and deep across motherhood, what happens to the act of mothering? Through personal and academic essays and poetry from Canada, the United States, and Palestine, these authors explore what it means to mother through times of struggle, uncertainty, danger, and change.From doctors and professors, to writers and environmentalists, women of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds share their insights and perspectives on what it is to mother when life, society, and the very future of those you mother are precarious. Sharing ideas, best practices, models, research, and creative work, this book's writers explore the decisions made by mothers and potential mothers in the face of violence and trauma, environmental and political upheaval, career insecurity, uncertainty in a new country, discrimination, and other barriers.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Mama, Your Bruise Is a Beautiful Colour

2. On the Future: A Harsh Climate for Motherhood

3. A 6(2) Mother Predicts Death

4. Using Contemplation and Motherhood to Reframe Faculty Mentoring in the Professoriate during Challenging Times

5. Sophie

6. Invisible Disability

7. Fridays

8. "Look How Strong He Is:" Social Media Messages and the Communal Mothering of Kodi Gaines

9. Shoes

10. Parenting in the Sexual Borderlands: Thriving despite Invisibility

11. Long Lines to Stave Off Suicide

12. Mothering through Generations

13. This Night

14. Perceptions of Mothers' Talks and Actions with Children During and Following Periods of Civil and Social Unrest in the United States, 2016-2017: Identifying Social Support Structures

15. Non-objective Poem

16. Othermothering:

17. After an Election

18. Long Walk, Painful Path, Joyful Nevertheless: Palestinian Mothers Representing a

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781772581485

1772581488

9781772581461

1772581461

OCLC:

1026384880