Mothering Outside the Lines:

Tales of Boundary Busting Mamas
Herausgeber: Martin, Bettyann; Parr, Michelann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this collection, authors transgress and uphold their maternal integrity as they dance at the edge of comfort and take up the challenge of exploring the boundaries of maternal practice? their own, their mothers, and those found in literature, media, or popular culture. These mothers assume a hopeful stance; actively choose courage over comfort; push through what is fun, fast, or easy, and show how they come to mother outside the lines in all its simplicity and complexity. As they bust outdated, tired, and ambiguous boundaries, they find and (re)set new boundaries that restore dignity and self-respect for themselves, their children, their families, and for the matricentric feminist collective, particularly those whose voices may continue to be silenced and marginalized by structures and limits beyond their control. Thirteen stories are threaded together to form a compelling tale showing how and why some mothers, when faced with ambiguous and untenable boundaries, resist the urge to accept the assumed, the unpredictable, even the demanded?whether they be internal or external, visible or invisible, real or imaginary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Demeter Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781772584646
• ISBN-10: 1772584649
• Artikelnr.: 68503814

Autorenporträt

BettyAnn Martin is a narrative scholar interested in the reconstruction of experience through story, and the manner in which creative engagement with memory transforms individual consciousness. She re-discovered the therapeutic aspects of storytelling and writing while completing her PhD in Educational Sustainability from Nipissing University. Edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation (2020) and Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood and Social Media (2016). Michelann Parr is mother to three children and nana to two. As full professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University, research interests include narrative inquiry, autoethnography, identity as lifework, sustainability as relationship with self, other, and all our relations, and family engagement. Recent and upcoming edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Solidarity (2020) and What the Pain of Mothers Must Never Expose (pending).