Remembering Maternal Bodies
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Remembering Maternal Bodies
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Author : B. Trigo
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-01-21
Remembering Maternal Bodies written by B. Trigo and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Remembering Maternal Bodies is a collection of essays about the writings of several Latina and Latin American women writers who remember their mothers, and/or challenge our commonly held beliefs about motherhood and maternity, in an effort to stop depression and melancholy. It suggests that the widespread violent depression and sometimes suicidal melancholy that haunts our culture and society is the result of a terrible fantasy about the way we become ourselves. This fantasy has a matricide at its core, and this matricide will continue to have its depressing effect on us as long as it remains in place and invisible. The authors showcased in this book make visible this fantasy and change it in their works in an effort to bring us out of our depression and melancholy.
Bearing The Weight Of The World Exploring Maternal Embodiment
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Author : Alys Einion
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2018-10-01
Bearing The Weight Of The World Exploring Maternal Embodiment written by Alys Einion and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-01 with Social Science categories.
The maternal body is a site of contested dynamics of power, identity, experience, autonomy, occupation, and control. Representations of the maternal body can mis/represent the childbearing and mothering form variously, often as monstrous, idealized, limited, scrutinized, or occupied, whilst dominant discourses limit motherhood through social devaluation. The maternal body has long been a hypervisible artifact: at once bracketed out in the interest of elevating the contributions of sperm-carriers or fetal status; and regarded with hostility and suspicion as out of control. Such arguments are deployed to justify surveillance mechanisms, medical scrutiny, and expectation of self-discipline.
Maternal Bodies
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Author : Nora Doyle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Maternal Bodies written by Nora Doyle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Family & Relationships categories.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother by her emotional and spiritual roles rather than by her physical work as a mother. As a result of this new vision, lower-class women and non-white women came to be excluded from the identity of the good mother because American culture defined them in terms of their physical labor. However, Doyle also shows that childbearing women contradicted the ideal of the disembodied mother in their personal accounts and instead perceived motherhood as fundamentally defined by the work of their bodies. Enslaved women were keenly aware that their reproductive bodies carried a literal price, while middle-class and elite white women dwelled on the physical sensations of childbearing and childrearing. Thus motherhood in this period was marked by tension between the lived experience of the maternal body and the increasingly ethereal vision of the ideal mother that permeated American print culture.
Maternal Bodies
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Author : Nora Doyle
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Maternal Bodies written by Nora Doyle and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Social Science categories.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother by her emotional and spiritual roles rather than by her physical work as a mother. As a result of this new vision, lower-class women and non-white women came to be excluded from the identity of the good mother because American culture defined them in terms of their physical labor. However, Doyle also shows that childbearing women contradicted the ideal of the disembodied mother in their personal accounts and instead perceived motherhood as fundamentally defined by the work of their bodies. Enslaved women were keenly aware that their reproductive bodies carried a literal price, while middle-class and elite white women dwelled on the physical sensations of childbearing and childrearing. Thus motherhood in this period was marked by tension between the lived experience of the maternal body and the increasingly ethereal vision of the ideal mother that permeated American print culture.
Philosophy And The Maternal Body
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Author : Michelle Boulous Walker
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
Philosophy And The Maternal Body written by Michelle Boulous Walker and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Family & Relationships categories.
Philosophy and the Maternal Body gives a new voice to the mother and the maternal body which have often been viewed as silent within philosophy. Michelle Boulous Walker clearly shows how some male theorists have appropriated maternity, and suggests new ways of articulating the maternal body and women's experience of pregnancy and motherhood.
Maternal Body And Voice In Toni Morrison Bobbie Ann Mason And Lee Smith
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Author : Paula Gallant Eckard
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2002
Maternal Body And Voice In Toni Morrison Bobbie Ann Mason And Lee Smith written by Paula Gallant Eckard and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Motherhood And Space
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Author : C. Wiedmer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Motherhood And Space written by C. Wiedmer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Social Science categories.
This is a collection of essays on the spatial dimensions of motherhood. Engaging both theoretical and empirical perspectives, contributors describe the intersection of space and gender across a variety of contexts with both familiar and unexpected territories explored.
Inappropriate Bodies Art Design And Maternity
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Author : Buller Rachel Epp
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2019-09-01
Inappropriate Bodies Art Design And Maternity written by Buller Rachel Epp and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-01 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection examines conflicting assumptions, expectations, and perceptions of maternity in artistic, cultural, and institutional contexts. Over the past two decades, the maternal body has gained currency in popular culture and the contemporary art world, with many books and exhibitions foregrounding artists’ experiences and art historical explorations of maternity that previously were marginalized or dismissed. In too many instances, however, the maternal potential of female bodies—whether realized or not—still causes them to be stigmatized, censored, or otherwise treated as inappropriate: cultural expectations of maternity create one set of prejudices against women whose bodies or experiences do align with those same expectations, and another set of prejudices against those whose do not. Support for mothers in the paid workforce remains woefully inadequate, yet in many cultural contexts, social norms continue to ask what is “wrong” with women who do not have children. In these essays and conversations, artists and writers discuss how maternal expectations shape both creative work and designed environments, and highlight alternative ways of existing in relation to those expectations.
Bearing The Weight Of The World
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Author : Alys Einion
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Bearing The Weight Of The World written by Alys Einion and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.
The maternal body is a site of contested dynamics of power, identity, experience, autonomy, occupation, and control. Representations of the maternal body can mis/represent the childbearing and mothering form variously, often as monstrous, idealized, limited, scrutinized, or occupied, whilst dominant discourses limit motherhood through social devaluation. The maternal body has long been a hypervisible artifact: at once bracketed out in the interest of elevating the contributions of sperm-carriers or fetal status; and regarded with hostility and suspicion as out of control. Such arguments are deployed to justify surveillance mechanisms, medical scrutiny, and expectation of self-discipline.This volume helps to develop a more critical understanding of what it means to be an embodied mother. The materiality of maternity and its centrality to family and social life remains too often viewed as a 'fringe' subject, the province of feminists, activists, hysterical women. For too long, the maternal body has been subject to 'expert' advice, guidance, censure, and control. Those of us maternal bodies are at risk of being commodified and diminished, having our bodily realities reduced to mechanistic functions and our lived experience disregarded. From art to medical surveillance, from genetics to radioactivity, goddess to breastfeeding, poetry to Indigenous community, dance to body size, the critical eye of the academic and the lived experience of the mother bring into being in this work a body of understanding, of expression, of knowledge and the power and authority of the lived experience, through and about the embodied mother. This critical-creative work encompasses new insights, new research, and redeveloped perspectives which combine the personal with the pervasive and point to new meaning-making in critical motherhood studies via the medium of the...
Maternal Thinking
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Author : Sid Reger
language : en
Publisher: Women and Myth Press
Release Date : 2023-11-30
Maternal Thinking written by Sid Reger and has been published by Women and Myth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with History categories.
Maternal Thinking: Gifts, Mothers' Bodies, and Earth, the fourth book of proceedings of conferences held by the Association of the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM), is an instructional guide to saving ourselves and our planet. Many pre-historic, and even contemporary cultures, especially Indigenous communities, feature "Maternal Thinking." Such cultures perceive that societies are successful when they center qualities associated with mothering: care, nurturance, cooperation, and meeting everyone's basic needs while respecting Earth and reciprocating nature's generosity.