Normative motherhood : regulations, representations, and reclamations /
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Coe Hill, Ontario :
Demeter Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Normative motherhood: regulations, representations, and reclamations: an introduction / Andrea O'Reilly
- Part 1. Regulations
- 1. Contemporary motherhood is mothering for success / May Isaac
- 2. Does my mothering look normal to you? A poetic exploration of formal guidelines and internet spaces / Elizabeth A. Bennett and Lori E. Koelsch
- 3. Social media and the management of normative motherhood / Megan Marshall
- 4. Social conditions, cultural inheritances, and normative motherhoods in times of COVID-19 in Brazil: gender relations and historical inequalities / Ana Carolina Eiras Coelho Soares and Sônia Maria de Magalhāes
- 5. The misogyny of lactivism: why breastfeeding is central to the discourse of normative motherhood
- / Karla Knutson
- Part 2.
- Representations
- 6. Artwork: upholding the mother / Vanessa Marr
- 7. Childrearing by the book: motherhood manuals from birth to nineteenth-century America / Denise Hill
- 8. The perils of embracing respectability politics: maternal conformity and normativity in Alice Walkers's The abortion and Nafissa Thompson-Spires's Belles lettres / Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka
- 9. "What finally dragged her under the water and who carried the spark: the intergenerational trauma of normative motherhood in Celeste Ng's Everything I never told you and Little fires everywhere / Andrea O'Reilly
- 10. Buzz kill and eye candy: normative motherhood disrupted and matricritics in Courtney Kessel and Chloé Clevenger's In balance with / Natalie Bruvels
- Part 3. Reclamations
- 11. The death of the god mother: deconstructing normative motherhood and its resistance / Isabelle Portelinha
- 12. Supermom's support group: exploring and resisting normative motherhood / Rachel E. Stough and Elizabeth A. Bennett
- 13. The art of mothering with a disability: challenging normative motherhood / Amy Wagner, Susan Smith, and Amy Crocker
- 14. 5 Older first-time moms in twenty-first-century Canada: challenging (and changing) the norms of normative early motherhood / Rosann Edwards
- 15. Throw down your bundles: an Anishinaabeg mother's perspective on Anishinaabeg normative motherhood / Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard.