Motherhood and Space

Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics, Home, and the Body

Author: Sarah Hardy
Secondary Author: Caroline Wiedmer
ISBN: 9781403967855

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: Palgrave Macmillan
Publish Date: 2005

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Parenting)