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Motherhood is an experience that is ever-present yet invisible in the global music genre of hip-hop. This aspect of wom- en’s experience has garnered little attention from journalists, writers and scholars of hip-hop culture. Nor do we have any understanding of how mothers who remain hip-hop culture enthusiasts negotiate their relationship to the culture of hip-hop and its music with their children. Furthermore, what are the discursive spaces that motherhood occupies in hiphop? Are there ways of understanding mothering in hip-hop along a historical continuum? What are some of the ways that motherhood complicates the hyper-masculinity so dominant in hip-hop? What does empowered and feminist mothering in the context of hip-hop look like, and how might it challenge the status quo? How are mothers engaging with hiphop, both locally and globally? Broad themes covered in this volume include: representations of motherhood in rap, feminist analyses of mothering in hip-hop, and experiential reflections on mothering in the process of artistic production.

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?Instead of simply just engaging popular battles of the baby- mama and the wifey tropes within popular rap lyrics, this book digs deeply and sifts through the layers, complexities, and dy- namics of hip-hop womanhood and, more specifically, mother- hood in hip-hop culture. This collection aims to ?discursively unsettle? ideologies of compulsory heterosexuality, the tropes of limiting modes of ?good? mothering, particularly in the con- text of everyday respectability politics, and successfully throws stereotypes on the table for examination through insightful essays on the experiences of rappin? mamas. Thoughtfully compiled, beautifully written, and deeply theorized through a lens of feminist praxis, this collection features contributions by some of today's brightest scholars. It is a must read and must teach for Women's and Gender Studies, Hip-Hop Stud- ies, and every other study that wants to get at the heart, soul, and materiality of mothering within and beyond hip-hop.? ?Rachel Raimist, pioneer hip-hop feminist filmmaker

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Maki Motapanyane is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Mount Royal University. She has published in the areas of feminist theory, transnational feminist research, and cultural studies. Her research is focused on feminism in Africa, and gender and international development. She is the busy mother of two school-aged children.

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