configurations of the maternal through politics, home, and the body
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wiedmer, Caroline > (ed.)
- Creator
- Hardy, Sarah > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Kukla, Rebecca
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2005
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, bevallingen, zwangerschappen, etniciteit, sociale klasse, lesbische vrouwen, romans, bundel
- Description
- This 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.