Performing Maternities

Political, Social and Feminist Enquiry

Kate Aughterson, Jess Moriarty (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2024
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-016-6 (ISBN)

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Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the normative, the queer, the transgressive, the joy and the pain of performing maternity. The book asks key questions about the construction of maternal identities and mythologies in the contemporary world, the ways these impact on individuals in different social, economic and sexual identities, and the ways in which - as mothers, writers, artists, parents and grandparents -we can challenge and address those identities.

Kate Aughterson is an independent scholar, who has taught in UK universities for the past 30 years and published in areas including feminist theory, early modern culture and contemporary women’s fiction. Jess Moriarty is principal lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK, where she is course leader on the Creative Writing MA and co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.

List of Figures

Introduction – Kate Aughterson

1. Maternal Performance: Relations and Embodiments – Lena Šimic and Emily Underwood-Lee

2. Experiencing and Knowing from a Mother/Child ‘Us’ – Ariel Moy

3. Still Mothering: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love through the Eyes of Bereaved Mothers – Abby Arnold-Patti

4. Mothering in the Peripheries: An Autoethnographic Account of the Challenging Matrescence of a Neurodivergent Woman – Claire Robinson

5. Tensions of Maternity – Steve Ryder and Diana Denton

6. Remember Me? Creative Conversations with Clothes – Jenni Cresswell

7. How to Tell a Tricky Story about Birth Trauma: Transforming My Lived Experience into a Mythical Epic – Michelle Hall and Teresa Izzard

8. Rhetorical Uteri: A Comparative Visual Analysis of Next Nature Network’s ‘First Artificial Womb for Humans’ and Ani Liu’s The Surrogacy – Yvette Chairez

9. Seeds from My Grandmother’s Womb – Suzi Bamblett

10. Delivering across Geographies: How Faith, Age, Friends, and Space Carry Birthing – Noor Ali

11. ‘These Nipples Are Wasted!’ – Chan-hyo Jeong

12. Macomère Narratives: Mothering in Higher Education – Janice B. Fournillier

13. Bitter-Sweet Embrace: Documentary Film of Artist-Clinician Sophia Xeros-Constantinides Presenting Her Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibition Exploring the Darker Side of Motherhood – Sophia Xeros-Constantinides

14. Comadreando: Entangling the Web of Our Lives – Freyca Calderon-Berumen and Karla O’Donald

15. Interrogating Constructions of Good/Bad Mothers through Popular Spanish Culture: The Case of Concha Piquer (1908–90) – Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar

16. Looking for Laura: The Generational Transmission of Sexuality – Valerie Walkerdine

17. Maternal Bodies in the Garden: Transit Spaces – Ruchika Wason Singh

Notes on Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Performance and Communities
Zusatzinfo	25 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	648 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-83595-016-7 / 1835950167
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-016-6 / 9781835950166
Zustand	Neuware