TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Marie
AU  - O'Reilly,Andrea
AU  - Short,Patricia M.
ED  - Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood
TI  - Motherhood: power and oppression 
SN  - 0889614547
U1  - 306.8743 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Women's Press
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Feminist theory
N1  - Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001; Includes bibliographical references; 1; Introduction; Andrea O'Rielly and Marie Porter --; 2; The kindest cut? : the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1900; Lisa Featherstone --; 3; Narrating breasts : constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories; Susanne Gannon and Babette Muller-Rockstroh --; 4; Scandalous practices and political performances : breastfeeding in the city; Alison Bartlett --; 5; "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; Karin Ikas --; 6; Mothering and stress discourses : a deconstruction of the interrelationship of discourses on mothering and stress; Erika Horwitz and Bonitz C. Long --; 7; A lesser woman? : fictional representations of the childless woman; Enza Gandolfo --; 8; (Mis)conceptions : the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Paradise; Andrea O'Reilly --; 9; Human and divine mothers in Hinduism; Tamara Ditrich --; 10; Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore; Hing Ai Yun --; 11; Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel; Ruby Newman --; 12; Down under power? : Australian mothering experiences in the 1950s, 1960s; Marie Porter --; 13; Mothers at home : oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies?; Elizabeth Reid Boyd --; 14; Mothers at the margins : singular identities and survival; Patricia Short --; 15; Naming maternal alienation; Anne Morris --; 16; Women of courage : the non-custodial mother; Julie Thacker --; 17; Abandoning mothers and their children; Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender and Rosemary Aris --; 18; When Eve left the garden : a modern tale about mothers who leave their families; Petra Buskens --; 19; Conclusion : reflections on motherhood; Patricia Short
N2  - "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
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