Full Description
This collection broaches the intersections of critical motherhood studies and feminist geography. Contributors demonstrate that an important dimension of the social construction of motherhood is how mothering happens in space and place, leading to the articulation of diverse maternal geographies. Through 16 concise chapters divided into three thematic sections, the contributors provide an account of motherhood and mothering as spatial practices that are embedded in relations of power across time and place. While some contributors explore how dominant discourses of motherhood seek to keep mothers in their place, others take up the notion of maternal geographies as productive in their own right and follow their subjects as they create a new sense of place. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that mothers are produced and regulated as subjects in relation to space and place, and also that practices of mothering produce spatial relationships.
The scholars gathered here bring interdisciplinary approaches from diverse fields including women's and gender studies, sexuality studies, social geography, sociology, anthropology, fine arts, literary studies, and film studies. Chapters include submissions from authors who reference the geographical contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Eastern Caribbean, Great Britain, Japan and Samoa, and the United States.
Contents
Chapter 1: "Maternal Geographies: Mothering In and Out of Place" by Jennifer Johnson & Krista Johnston
Chapter 2: "Reconstructing `Home' Through Mothering in Japan: A Case of Samoan Wives" by Minako Kuramitsu
Chapter 3: "May: Mothering in Space and Place, Painting and Poem" by Wanda Campbell
Chapter 4: "Mothering, Geography, and Spaces of Play" by Laurel O'Gorman
Chapter 5: "Spatial Practices of Care, Knowledge and Becoming Among Mothers of Children with Autism" by Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Chapter 6: "A Global Positioning System: On `Finding Myself' as a Mother in the Romantic Landscape" by Elizabeth Philps
Chapter 7: "Good Mothers?: Geographies of Sexualized Labour and Mothering in the Strip Trades in Northern Ontario" by Tracy Gregory and Jennifer Johnson
Chapter 8: "PLACEnta: Finding Our Way Home" by Jules Koostachin
Chapter 9: "Pregnancy, Gender and Career Progression: The Visible Mother in the Workplace" by Danielle Drozdzewski and Natasha Klocker
Chapter 10: "Belly, Baby, Boundaries: The Effect of Pregnancy on Research Relationships" by Shana Calixte
Chapter 11: "Fields of Care: (Auto)ethnography of the Politics of Pregnancy and Foodwork in Aotearoa New Zealand" by Emma Sharp
Chapter 12: "Engineering the Good Mother: A Case Study of Opportunity NYC" by Carolyn Fraker
Chapter 13: "Mothers Out of Place in Argentine Cinema" by Nadia Der-Ohannesian
Chapter 14: "Geographies of Care and Peripheral Citizenship Among Mothers of the Brazilian Bolsa Família Program" by Nathalie Reis Itaboraí
Chapter 15: "`Parce que sans ça tu les oublies, les chansons...': Mothering Between Solidarity and Difference Through Francophone Places and Networks in Kingston, ON" by Laurence Simard-Gagnon
Chapter 16: "LGBT Families and `Motherless' Children: Tracking Heteronormative Resistances in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia" by Catherine Nash, Andrew Gorman-Murray and Kath Browne
