Mothers as keepers and tellers of origin stories /
This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children's origin stories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they strategically craft complex origin stories fo...
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Bradford, Ontario :
Demeter Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Kerri S. Kearney and B. Lee Murray
- 1. In the beginning : stories (un)told of adoption and origin / Kate Greenway
- 2. Connecting the dots in family stories : embedded feminist perspectives / Evonne Garnett
- 3. Who wants to know? : an autoethnography of how and why a mother may craft audience-dependent stories of origin / Elizabeth Cralley
- 4. Single mothers storying the absent father and values-based cartooning / Penelope Mendonc̀¨a
- 5. A familial history of alcoholism and depression : an imagined interaction with my daughters / Sarah LeBlanc
- Interlude: The secrets of your conception / Sagashus T. Levingston with Kerri S. Kearney and B. Lee Murray
- 6. Magic carpets and baloney boats : an origin story told by two moms / B. Lee Murray
- 7. Three mothers of a Metis : (re)creating complex origin narratives / Michael Howard
- 8. Once upon a time : storytelling origin stories / Kerri S. Kearney
- Postlude.