Full Description
There has been little research on the specific impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and motherwork. This collection is the first to explore the impact of the pandemic on mothers' care and wage labour in the context of employment, schooling, communities, families, and the relationships of parents and children. With a global perspective and from the standpoint of single, partnered, queer, racialized, Indigenous, economically disadvantaged, disabled, and birthing mothers, the volume examines the increasing complexity and demands of childcare, domestic labour, elder care, and home schooling under the pandemic protocols; the intricacies and difficulties of performing wage labour at home; the impact of the pandemic on mothers' employment; and the strategies mothers have used to manage the competing demands of care and wage labour under COVID-19. By way of creative art, poetry, photography and creative writing along with scholarly research, the collection seeks to make visible what has been invisibilized and render audible what has been silenced: the care and crisis of motherwork through and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Andrea O'Reilly and Fiona Joy Green
I: Chapters
"Academic Mothers and COVID-19"
Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and sara hayden
"Motherhood and Academia in Mexican universities: Juggling our path through the COVID-19 lockdown"
Lidia Ivonne Blasquez Lilu B and Lucia Montes
"Indigenous Mothers and COVID-19"
Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Jaime Cidro
"Smudging My Home and Family: An Anishinaabeg Mother's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard
"Mothers and Agile Work During the COVID 19 Pandemic - Doubling Up on the Double Shift"
Rebecca Bromwich
"The skewed gendered burden of the pandemic on South Asian Mothers"
Saba Karim Khan
"Shades of Grey: A Black, Single Mother's Reflection on Love, Caretaking, and COVID"
Haile Eshe Cole
"Delivering during a Pandemic"
Rachel E. Silverman
"Knowing that I had choice empowered me: Preparing for and Experiencing Birth During a Pandemic."
Dr. Alys Einion
"'A mother's duty' during two pandemics - Australian mothers in 1919 and 2020"
Dr. Belinda Robson
"'The Burden of Care': Exploring the Gendered Impact(s) of COVID-19 on Mothers' Caring Labour"
Gillian Anderson and Sylvie Lafrenière
"Workplace and Social Justice for Mothers Who Work in the Time of Coronavirus"
Jennifer L. Borda
"Your "only" is my everything - mothers of children with disabilities navigate through Covid-19
Kinga Pozniak
"Mother's perceptions of success and struggle during Covid-19 "
Molly Wiant Cummins and Grace Ellen Brannon
"I thought I was getting better at being a good mother... but then all that changed":
Mothering during a Pandemic"
Aleksandra Staneva
"Life in Lockdown: Single Mothering during the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Punam Mehta
"Motherhood, e-working and conciliation: a utopia in the time of Covid"
Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero
"Futures for Ghosts: Using traditional feminized skill, while adapting to the unprecedented, for a future unknown"
Hillary Di Menna
"Parenting Journeys: Together and Apart"
Natasha Steer
Jen Vasic
"The Invisible Frontline Workers: Narratives of Young Indian Mothers' Experiences through the Pandemic"
Dr. Ketoki Mazumdar
"Digitally mediated motherhood during COVID-19"
Kate Orton-Johnson.
"A Single-parent, Multigenerational Family Testimony: Living under Covid-19 & other orders in Silicon Valley"
Perlita R. Dicochea
"Professional perceptions of women's ways to deal with pregnancy and motherhood amidst the Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic chaos"
Margareth Santos Zanchetta et. al.
"The hill I chose to die on: a feminist autoethnographic account of mothering throughCOVID-19, unacknowledged mental illness and emotional abuse"
Dr Lauren Hansen
"Navigating the care deficit and mothering beyond monogamy in COVID-19"
Stevie Lang Howson
"The First "Successful" COVID-19 Birth in the World: Feminist Reflections on the Medical Model of Birth in an Epidemic"
Holly Zwalf
"Pandemic mothering, bilingualism, and family language policy: a discourse analysis of immigrant mothers' narratives"
Dr. Hakyoon Lee
"What We Left Behind: Reflections on parenting Black children through a pandemic"
Brooke Harris Garad
"And then we went outside: A Black mothering lens on quarantine, health disparities and state violence"
Zaje A. T. Harrell
"Reflections on the everyday work of navigating COVID 19
Elizabeth Brulé
"Aging Mothers: Dependent Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities During Covid-19 Pandemic"
Rhonda Petrella
"Planet COVID: living through a panic-demic" Autistic Parenting under Covid-19"
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Mothers and the Gig Economy of Dance"
Susie Burpee
"Navigating Family and Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What does Media say about Working Mothers in Qatar?"
Ghadir Fakhri Al Jayyousi-Alsalim
"Cross-cultural Mothering Work during Pandemic Times"
María José
"Mothers as front line workers and Covid-19"
Andrea O'Reilly
II. POETRY
"20/20 Vision"
Maya Bhave
"For the Lockdown Babies"
Gráinne Evans
"smothered"
"Era Fever"
Victoria Bailey
"Outside"
Elsje Fourie
"Women's Witness"
Cali Prince
III. ART
"caring"
"vital line"
"Dear Josefine"
"Shut up!"
"Net is working"
Barbara Philipp
"Pierro. Prayers can't kill COVID19"
Helen Sargeant
"Thank you Heroes"
Dara Herman Zierlein
"Context Collapse"
El Putnam
"COVID19"
Catherine Moeller
"No room for family COVID19 fatigue"
Tracey Farrington and Fiona Joy Green
