Imagining Motherhood In The Twenty First Century
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Imagining Motherhood In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Valerie Heffernan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-17
Imagining Motherhood In The Twenty First Century written by Valerie Heffernan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect on and influence the cultural meaning of motherhood in the contemporary era. Mindful of the fact that the images of motherhood that we see in popular media, on television, and in literature are not mere background noise to our daily lives, the various chapters explore how they influence our understanding of what it means to be a mother, affect our expectations of motherhood and of mothers, frame our experience of mothering, and even inform our reproductive decisions. Including insights from media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, and the performing and visual arts, this book explores how engaging with diverse representations of mothers and mothering contributes to a broader and deeper interdisciplinary understanding of how motherhood is constructed in our time. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.
Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood
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Author : Zeynep B. Gürtin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-18
Conceiving Contemporary Parenthood written by Zeynep B. Gürtin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-18 with Social Science categories.
With the global expansion of reproductive technologies, there are ever more ways to create a family, and more family types than ever before. This book explores the experiences of those persons - whether single, in a couple, or part of collective co-parenting arrangements; whether hetero- or homosexual; whether cis- or transgender - who are creating what has been termed ‘new family forms’ with reproductive ‘assistance’. Drawing on qualitative research from around the world, the book is particularly anchored in two bodies of social science scholarship - sociological and anthropological inquiries into the cultural impact of reproductive technologies on the one hand, and parenting culture studies on the other. It seeks to create fertile conversations between these scholarships, highlighting the intersections in the ways we think about conceiving and caring for children in today’s ‘reproductive landscape’. Focusing specifically on persons whose reproductive journeys do not conform to dominant scripts, the book traces the many ways in which intentions, expectations and technological developments contribute to changing and enduring conceptions of good parenthood in the twenty-first century. Taking a holistic perspective, the book presents deep insights into the experiences not only of (intending) parents, but also of donors, surrogates, medical professionals and activists. The collection will be of interest to an international readership of scholars of gender, reproduction, parenting and family life. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Anthropology & Medicine.
Imagining Human Rights In Twenty First Century Theater
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Author : F. Becker
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-12-27
Imagining Human Rights In Twenty First Century Theater written by F. Becker and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-27 with History categories.
There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.
21st Century Narratives Of Maternal Ambivalence
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Author : Rachel Williamson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-17
21st Century Narratives Of Maternal Ambivalence written by Rachel Williamson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-17 with Social Science categories.
Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother’s capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap.
Imagining Motherhood In Contemporary Irish And Caribbean Literature
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Author : Abigail L. Palko
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-25
Imagining Motherhood In Contemporary Irish And Caribbean Literature written by Abigail L. Palko and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature undertakes a comparative transnational reading to develop more expansive literary models of good mothering. Abigail L. Palko argues that Irish and Caribbean literary representations of non-normative mothering practices do not reflect transgressive or dangerous mothering but are rather cultural negotiations of the definition of a good mother. This original book demonstrates the sustained commitment to countering the dominant ideologies of maternal self-sacrifice foundational to both Irish and Caribbean nationalist rhetoric, offering instead the possibility of integrating maternal agency into an effective model of female citizenship.
Twenty First Century Motherhood
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Author : Andrea O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010-09-28
Twenty First Century Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-28 with Social Science categories.
"Andrea O'Reilly's coverage is comprehensive. Her book reflects current trends in the field, particularly the examination of reproductive technologies and the Internet and their implications for motherhood and mothering."---Heather Hewett, State University of New York, New Paltz, writer and editor of the Global Mama column for Girl with Pen (www.girlwpen.com) --
Single Parents
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Author : Berit Åström
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-29
Single Parents written by Berit Åström and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-29 with Social Science categories.
This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Narratives Of Motherhood And Mothering In Fiction And Life Writing
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Author : Helena Wahlström Henriksson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-16
Narratives Of Motherhood And Mothering In Fiction And Life Writing written by Helena Wahlström Henriksson and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Social Science categories.
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in “in-between” positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is “normal” or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
Motherhood In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Alcira Mariam Alizade
language : en
Publisher: Karnac Books
Release Date : 2006
Motherhood In The Twenty First Century written by Alcira Mariam Alizade and has been published by Karnac Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Psychology categories.
This book takes a fresh look at women in their maternal role. In the twenty-first century, with its frenzy and heterogeneity, where the mixture of modernity and post-modernity is not without danger, motherhood cannot escape the impact of social and cultural transformations. Psycho-history, the accumulation and variety of psychoanalytic theories of femininity and motherhood, the contribution of gender studies, cross-disciplinary research, and listening to what our patients have to say'all this has yielded, in the past few decades, much controversial data that challenges orthodox classical thinking on the role and function of women as mothers.Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that, to some extent, subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women; motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy working mothers); teenage motherhood in which there is no true awareness of the maternal function; motherhood in couples of homosexual women; men who take upon themselves the maternal function (men-mothers); complex motherhood by virtue of the multiple variants which have nowadays become possible thanks to new reproductive techniques; shared motherhood; surrogate motherhood; sublimated motherhood; and perverse motherhood.The Contributors: H. Harsch, Giovanna Ambrosio, Estela Welldon, Toni Heineman, Ehrenfeld Diane, Joan Raphael-Leff, Ruth Axelrod, Leticia Glocer, Sylvie Faure-Pragier, Guignard Florence, Mariam Alizade, Bleichmar Emilce, and Teresa Lartigue Leisse de Lustgarten.
What Do Mothers Need
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Author : Andrea O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
What Do Mothers Need written by Andrea O'Reilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Family & Relationships categories.
The themes and issues explored are many: midwifery, intensive mothering, food allergies, workplace flexibility, family meals, childcare, education, popular culture, “opting out,” maternal empowerment, fathers, maternal activism, poverty, shared parenting, and work/life balance, and are examined from a wide range of perspectives including Aboriginal, Latina, African American/Canadian, military, single, poor, young, at-home, waged mothers, as well as mothers with disabilities. The volume argues that what is needed is a new “cultural conversation” on, and “a reframing” of, motherhood; one that is appreciative of the diversity of mothers’ lived experiences, attentive to the specific social context of twenty-first century motherhood, and audacious enough to imagine radical and transformative ways to mother and be mothered."--pub. desc.