The Missing Mother - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772585084 ISBN 13: 9781772585087

Verlag: Demeter Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

This collection explores the concept of the Missing Mother from two inter-related standpoints: the mother as absent in society and the mother as absent in a woman’ s selfhood. The first perspective considers why and how the mother/mothering is disregarded, discounted, or dismissed in art, literature, culture, policy, and law while the second perspective explores why and how a woman has marginalized, lost, forgotten, forfeited, or abandoned her individual maternal identity. Whether it is society that erases the maternal or a woman who forsakes it, the aim of this collection is to consider the why, how, what, who, and where of the mechanics of missing mother in both society and self. This collection considers reasons for this disavowal and disappearance of the maternal and shows how mothers can and do resist to recover and reclaim the maternal in society and self. Overall, this collection seeks to uncover and reveal the mother so marginalized and maligned in and by patriarchal culture and to show how women may find the missing mother in society and self and achieve empowerment in doing so.

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Dr. Andrea O’ Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of Matricentric Feminism, a feminism for and about mothers (2016) and Matricritics, a literary theory and practice for a reading of mother-focused texts (2024). She is full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’ s Studies at York University, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press. She is coeditor/editor of thirty plus books on many motherhood topics Martina Mullaney is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher on the Feminist Art Making Histories Project at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dú n Laoghaire, Ireland. She holds an AHRC-funded Ph.D. in art from the University of Reading 2022.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Demeter Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1772585084
• ISBN 13: 9781772585087
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: O'Reilly Andrea, Mullaney Martina
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