Motherhood : power and oppression /
Motherhood : power and oppression /
edited by Marie Porter, Patricia Short, and Andrea O'Reilly.
- xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / The kindest cut? : the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1900 / Narrating breasts : constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories / Scandalous practices and political performances : breastfeeding in the city / "Pax Materna" or mothers at war with the empire? : Canadian and Australian perspectives on the motherhood debate in the British empire during the Great War / Mothering and stress discourses : a deconstruction of the interrelationship of discourses on mothering and stress / A lesser woman? : fictional representations of the childless woman / (Mis)conceptions : the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Paradise / Human and divine mothers in Hinduism / Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore / Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel / Down under power? : Australian mothering experiences in the 1950s, 1960s / Mothers at home : oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? / Mothers at the margins : singular identities and survival / Naming maternal alienation / Women of courage : the non-custodial mother / Abandoning mothers and their children / When Eve left the garden : a modern tale about mothers who leave their families / Conclusion : reflections on motherhood / Andrea O'Rielly and Marie Porter -- Lisa Featherstone -- Susanne Gannon and Babette Muller-Rockstroh -- Alison Bartlett -- Karin Ikas -- Erika Horwitz and Bonitz C. Long -- Enza Gandolfo -- Andrea O'Reilly -- Tamara Ditrich -- Hing Ai Yun -- Ruby Newman -- Marie Porter -- Elizabeth Reid Boyd -- Patricia Short -- Anne Morris -- Julie Thacker -- Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender and Rosemary Aris -- Petra Buskens -- Patricia Short. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
"Motherhood: Power and Oppression expands the scholarship on motherhood from a feminist perspective, examining particularly how motherhood is simultaneously a site of power and of oppression. The collection draws on psychological, historical, sociological, literary, and cultural approaches to inquiry. It includes methodology and theory from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives: qualitative, quantitative, corporeal, legal, religious, fictional, mythological, dramatic and action research, and feminist research and practice. The book would be of interest to the many scholars who teach and carry out research on motherhood and on the family, as well in the more general fields of women's studies and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
0889614547 9780889614543
Motherhood--Congresses
Feminist theory--Congresses
306.8743
Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / The kindest cut? : the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1900 / Narrating breasts : constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories / Scandalous practices and political performances : breastfeeding in the city / "Pax Materna" or mothers at war with the empire? : Canadian and Australian perspectives on the motherhood debate in the British empire during the Great War / Mothering and stress discourses : a deconstruction of the interrelationship of discourses on mothering and stress / A lesser woman? : fictional representations of the childless woman / (Mis)conceptions : the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Paradise / Human and divine mothers in Hinduism / Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore / Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel / Down under power? : Australian mothering experiences in the 1950s, 1960s / Mothers at home : oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? / Mothers at the margins : singular identities and survival / Naming maternal alienation / Women of courage : the non-custodial mother / Abandoning mothers and their children / When Eve left the garden : a modern tale about mothers who leave their families / Conclusion : reflections on motherhood / Andrea O'Rielly and Marie Porter -- Lisa Featherstone -- Susanne Gannon and Babette Muller-Rockstroh -- Alison Bartlett -- Karin Ikas -- Erika Horwitz and Bonitz C. Long -- Enza Gandolfo -- Andrea O'Reilly -- Tamara Ditrich -- Hing Ai Yun -- Ruby Newman -- Marie Porter -- Elizabeth Reid Boyd -- Patricia Short -- Anne Morris -- Julie Thacker -- Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender and Rosemary Aris -- Petra Buskens -- Patricia Short. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
"Motherhood: Power and Oppression expands the scholarship on motherhood from a feminist perspective, examining particularly how motherhood is simultaneously a site of power and of oppression. The collection draws on psychological, historical, sociological, literary, and cultural approaches to inquiry. It includes methodology and theory from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives: qualitative, quantitative, corporeal, legal, religious, fictional, mythological, dramatic and action research, and feminist research and practice. The book would be of interest to the many scholars who teach and carry out research on motherhood and on the family, as well in the more general fields of women's studies and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
0889614547 9780889614543
Motherhood--Congresses
Feminist theory--Congresses
306.8743