| Description |
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly & Marie Porter -- The kindest cut? the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1990 / Lisa Featherstone -- Narrating breasts: constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories / Susanne Gannon & Babette Müller-Rockstroh -- Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city / Alison Bartlett -- "Pax Materna" or Mothers at war with the empire? / Karin Ikas -- Mothering and stress discourses / Erika Horwitz & Bonita C. Long -- A lesser woman? fictional representations of the childless woman / Enza Gandolfo -- (Mis)conceptions: the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye & Paradise / -- Human and divine mothers in Hinduism / Tamara Ditrich -- Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore / Hing Ai Yun -- Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel / Ruby Newman -- Down Under power? Australian mothering experiences / Marie Porter -- Mothers at home: oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? / Elizabeth Reid Boyd -- Mothers at the margins / Patricia Short -- Naming maternal alienation / Anne Morris -- Women of courage: the non-custodial mother / Julie Thacker -- Abandoning mothers and their children / Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender & Rosemary Aris -- When Eve left the garden: a modern tale about mothers who leave their families / Petra Büskens -- Conclusion: reflections on motherhood / Patricia Short |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Motherhood -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Porter, Marie, 1938-
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O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
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Short, Patricia, 1950-
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Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood (1st : 2001 : University of Queensland)
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| LC no. |
2006445484 |
| ISBN |
0889614547 paperback |
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