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Mothers as keepers and tellers of origin stories
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"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 for their child(ren), as well as how the telling and retelling of origin stories may be passed on as generational knowledge. The third section discusses mothering and origin stories from multiple perspectives: that of a father by adoption, of single mothers positioning stories of absent fathers, and a multi-perspective chapter that includes a mother by adoption, her adult child, and her child's birthmother. Based within feminist scholarship with chapters written from the first person positionality of the authors, this anthology encourages dialogue about a mothering issue that is often unaddressed, in part due to remaining patriarchal expectations about what makes a family and/or a mother. This interdisciplinary work also embraces the complex and multi-actor worlds in which mothering takes place and includes both creative and scholarly works as well as illustrations that are included as a part of the mothers communicating origin stories."--
Acknowledgements -- 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 : a study using values-based cartooning / Penelope Mendonca -- 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.
Kerri S. Kearney and B. Lee Murray, editors.