Full Description
This collection considers how embodiment, mothering, and curriculum theory are related to practices in education that silence, conceal, and limit gendered, raced, and sexual maternal bodies. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a 'bodied curriculum' - a practice that attends to the relational, social, and ethical implications of 'being-with' other bodies differently, and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce.
Contributors argue that the prevailing silence about the maternal body in educational scholarship reinforces the binary split between domestic and public spaces, family life and work, one's own children and others' children, and women's roles as 'mothers' or 'others.' Providing an interdisciplinary perspective in which postmodern ideas about the body interact with those of learning and teaching, Mothering a Bodied Curriculum brings theory and practice together into an ever-evolving conversation.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: M/Othering and a Minor Methodology
Part 1 Emplacement
1 Consuming M/Otherhood: Pedagogical Regimes of Truth in Parental Consumerism
2 Pregnant Pedagogy
3 M/Othering midst Tensioned Spaces: Towards Theorizing Home Schooling
4 The Mindful Materfessor: M/Othering Bodies of Difference in Education
5 Relational Teaching and Mothers with Disabilities: Bridging the Public/Private, Dependency/Nurturance Divides
6 E-Mail from a Digital Daddy: A Conversation with My (Future) Child in an Age of Digital (Communication) Technology
7 Harriet's House: Mothering Other People's Children
Part 2 Desire
8 Living in/as Revolt: Judaism, Circumcision, and M/Othering
9 Navigating M/Other-Son Plots as a 'Migrant Act': Autobiography, Currere, and Gender
10 Where Desire Endures: Intimacy and Mothering a Bodied Curriculum
11 (Lesbian) M/Otherhood as Contradiction: Love, Sexuality, and Other (Imagined) Wonders
12 M/Othering Multiculturalism: Adoption, Diversity, and Nomadic Subjects
13 Writing in the Shadows Cast by Moonlight
Part 3 Affect
14 Tasting the M/Other as Sensational Pedagogy
15 Breastfeeding Mothers and Lovers: An Ebbing and Flowing Curriculum of the Fluid Embrace
16 The Breastfeeding Curriculum: Stories of Queer, Female, Unruly Learning
17 Multiple Stories: Alternate Constructions of M/Othering in the Context of Family Violence
18 First Reading: Troubling Maternity
Part 4 Curricular Response
19 M/Othering as Un(der)studied in Curriculum Studies: An Epilogue
Edited by Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman
