Motherlife : studies of mothering experience /
Studies of mothering experience
editors, Vangie Bergum, Jeanne Van Der Zalm.
- xxxiii, 399 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Section I. Grounding mother in everyday life -- Section II. Mothering experiences -- Section III. Pivotal moments for mothers -- Section IV. A Child on Her Mind: a play -- -- Grounding mother in everyday life -- Way of the mother -- The way of the mother as philosophical ethic -- Good enough mother -- The chiasmic relation of mother and infant -- Motherhood as culture: rituals and rites of passage -- -- Mothering experiences -- A phenomenological description of pregnancy -- Rhythms of birth -- Lesbian motherhood: love and challenge -- The birthing of the older mother -- Twin birth -- Birth at home; At home with birth -- -- Pivotal moments for mothers -- The gift of twins -- Finding her child without breath -- Mothers transformed through the pregnancy loss -- Stories of multiple pregnancy loss -- When pregnancy causes illness -- Reading for mother across difference -- The mother-midwife relationship -- When mothers are employed -- -- A Child on Her Mind: a play -- Introduction to A Child on Her Mind -- A Child on Her Mind: a play. Section I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Section II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Section III. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Section IV. 20. 21.