Overview

There has been little research on the specific impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and motherwork. This collection is the first to explore the impact of the pandemic on mothers’ care and wage labour in the context of employment, schooling, communities, families, and the relationships of parents and children. With a global perspective and from the standpoint of single, partnered, queer, racialized, Indigenous, economically disadvantaged, disabled, and birthing mothers, the volume examines the increasing complexity and demands of childcare, domestic labour, elder care, and home schooling under the pandemic protocols; the intricacies and difficulties of performing wage labour at home; the impact of the pandemic on mothers’ employment; and the strategies mothers have used to manage the competing demands of care and wage labour under COVID-19. By way of creative art, poetry, photography and creative writing along with scholarly research, the collection seeks to make visible what has been invisibilized and render audible what has been silenced: the care and crisis of motherwork through and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Author:   Andrea O'Reilly ,  Fiona J Green
Publisher:   Demeter Press
Imprint:   Demeter Press
ISBN:  

9781772583434

ISBN 10:   177258343
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   01 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea O’Reilly and Fiona Joy Green I: Chapters “Academic Mothers and COVID-19” Lynn O’Brien Hallstein and sara hayden “Motherhood and Academia in Mexican universities: Juggling our path through the COVID-19 lockdown” Lidia Ivonne Blasquez Lilu B and Lucia Montes “Indigenous Mothers and COVID-19” Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Jaime Cidro “Smudging My Home and Family: An Anishinaabeg Mother’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic” Renée E. Mazinegiizhigo-kwe Bédard “Mothers and Agile Work During the COVID 19 Pandemic - Doubling Up on the Double Shift” Rebecca Bromwich “The skewed gendered burden of the pandemic on South Asian Mothers” Saba Karim Khan “Shades of Grey: A Black, Single Mother’s Reflection on Love, Caretaking, and COVID” Haile Eshe Cole “Delivering during a Pandemic” Rachel E. Silverman “Knowing that I had choice empowered me: Preparing for and Experiencing Birth During a Pandemic.” Dr. Alys Einion “‘A mother’s duty’ during two pandemics – Australian mothers in 1919 and 2020” Dr. Belinda Robson “‘The Burden of Care’: Exploring the Gendered Impact(s) of COVID-19 on Mothers’ Caring Labour” Gillian Anderson and Sylvie Lafrenière “Workplace and Social Justice for Mothers Who Work in the Time of Coronavirus” Jennifer L. Borda “Your “only” is my everything – mothers of children with disabilities navigate through Covid-19 Kinga Pozniak “Mother’s perceptions of success and struggle during Covid-19 “ Molly Wiant Cummins and Grace Ellen Brannon “I thought I was getting better at being a good mother… but then all that changed”: Mothering during a Pandemic” Aleksandra Staneva “Life in Lockdown: Single Mothering during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Punam Mehta “Motherhood, e-working and conciliation: a utopia in the time of Covid” Ana Lucía Hernández Cordero “Futures for Ghosts: Using traditional feminized skill, while adapting to the unprecedented, for a future unknown” Hillary Di Menna “Parenting Journeys: Together and Apart” Natasha Steer Jen Vasic “The Invisible Frontline Workers: Narratives of Young Indian Mothers’ Experiences through the Pandemic” Dr. Ketoki Mazumdar “Digitally mediated motherhood during COVID-19” Kate Orton-Johnson. “A Single-parent, Multigenerational Family Testimony: Living under Covid-19 & other orders in Silicon Valley” Perlita R. Dicochea “Professional perceptions of women’s ways to deal with pregnancy and motherhood amidst the Brazilian COVID-19 pandemic chaos” Margareth Santos Zanchetta et. al. “The hill I chose to die on: a feminist autoethnographic account of mothering throughCOVID-19, unacknowledged mental illness and emotional abuse” Dr Lauren Hansen “Navigating the care deficit and mothering beyond monogamy in COVID-19” Stevie Lang Howson “The First “Successful” COVID-19 Birth in the World: Feminist Reflections on the Medical Model of Birth in an Epidemic” Holly Zwalf “Pandemic mothering, bilingualism, and family language policy: a discourse analysis of immigrant mothers’ narratives” Dr. Hakyoon Lee “What We Left Behind: Reflections on parenting Black children through a pandemic” Brooke Harris Garad “And then we went outside: A Black mothering lens on quarantine, health disparities and state violence” Zaje A. T. Harrell “Reflections on the everyday work of navigating COVID 19 Elizabeth Brulé “Aging Mothers: Dependent Adult Children with Intellectual Disabilities During Covid-19 Pandemic” Rhonda Petrella “Planet COVID: living through a panic-demic” Autistic Parenting under Covid-19” Pseudonym Mothers and the Gig Economy of Dance” Susie Burpee “Navigating Family and Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What does Media say about Working Mothers in Qatar?” Ghadir Fakhri Al Jayyousi-Alsalim “Cross-cultural Mothering Work during Pandemic Times” María José “Mothers as front line workers and Covid-19” Andrea O’Reilly II. POETRY “20/20 Vision” Maya Bhave “For the Lockdown Babies” Gráinne Evans “smothered” “Era Fever” Victoria Bailey “Outside” Elsje Fourie “Women’s Witness” Cali Prince III. ART “caring” “vital line” “Dear Josefine” “Shut up!” “Net is working” Barbara Philipp “Pierro. Prayers can’t kill COVID19” Helen Sargeant “Thank you Heroes” Dara Herman Zierlein “Context Collapse” El Putnam “COVID19” Catherine Moeller “No room for family COVID19 fatigue” Tracey Farrington and Fiona Joy Green

Reviews

These dispatches provide raw, diverse, critical evidence that much of the economy did not ?stop? under Covid-19. Production and service work shifted from the paid to unpaid sector creating intensive days of triple shifts for mothers. It shifted to the working unit ? the home ? what economists declare is unproductive. This invaluable and timely collection is compulsory reading for policy makers and researchers to support and empower mothers, the pandemic's most overworked, reliable, and invisible workers. - Marilyn Waring, public policy scholar, former politician, and a principal founder of feminist economics

Author Information

Dr. Andrea O’Reilly is Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University, founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press. She is co-editor/editor of twenty books including Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond and The Routledge Companion to Motherhood and author of three monographs including Matricentric Feminism: Theory Activism and Practice. She is twice the recipient of York University’s “Professor of the Year Award” for teaching excellence and is the 2019 recipient of the Status of Women and Equity Award of Distinction from OCUFA (Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations). She is mother of three adult children. Dr. Fiona Joy Green is a feminist mother and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Winnipeg who believes in the power of revolutionary feminist motherwork. She’s interested in the agency of children and mothers, in gender socialization and gender identity, and in the ability of matroreform and feminist motherlines to contribute to feminist theorizing and praxis. She’s the sole author of Practicing Feminist Mothering (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011) and co-editor of three books addressing feminist parenting and maternal pedagogies published by Demeter Press.

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