Research Catalog

Title

Motherhood and space : configurations of the maternal through politics, home, and the body / edited by Sarah Hardy and Caroline Wiedmer.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hardy, Sarah Boykin, 1962-
• Wiedmer, Caroline Alice, 1960-

Description

xiv, 335 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This interdisciplinary collection explores the complex ways motherhood is experienced by studying the concrete and imaginary spaces mothers inhabit. The authors examine locations for birth, negotiations of domesticity, institutional framings of the mother's world, and maternal metaphors in art and popular culture. Using conceptions of space as a common lens, these essays articulate the interplay between motherhood as a cultural construction and motherhood as a lived experience. The collection as a whole reveals how the spaces of motherhood are varied, changing, and politically charged." -- Publisher description.

Subject

• Motherhood
• Mothers > Social conditions
• Mothers
• Mothers
• maternity
• mothers
• Motherhood
• Mothers > Social conditions
• Mutterschaft > Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: spaces of motherhood / Sarah Hardy and Caroline Wiedmer -- MotherSpace: disciplining through the material and discursive / Marsha Marotta -- "Magdalene versus the nation": Ireland as a space of compulsory motherhood in Edna O'Brien's Down by the river / Sara Gerend -- An office of one's own: stories of power, space, and motherhood in the Swiss academy / Caroline Wiedmer -- The maternity hospital: blueprint for redesigning childbirth / Leslie Kanes Weisman -- The birthplace / Barbara Katz Rothman and Wendy Simonds -- Closer to home: the domestic in the discourses of upper-middle-class pregnancy / Helena Michie and Naomi R. Cahn -- House and home: feminist variations on a theme / Iris Marion Young -- Black women and motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- Integrating home and wage workplace: women's daily lives in a Canadian suburb / Isabel Dyck -- Locating lesbian parent families / Jacqui Gabb -- Like a mother: paid "mother-work" performed in private spaces / Amy Mullin -- "You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away I think": a case study of family photos, mothering and familial space / Gillian Rose -- Uneasy spaces: the domestic uncanny in contemporary installation art / Fiona Carson -- Winnicott's maternal aesthetic: absorption and beholding in potential space / Ellen Brinks -- Pregnant bodies as public spaces / Rebecca Kukla -- Breeding ambiguity: the womb as alien space in the X-Files / Sarah Hardy.

ISBN

• 1403967857
• 9781403967855

LCCN

2005048680

OCLC

• ocm60312083
• 60312083
• SCSB-1379685

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library