Overview

This edited collection provides a distinctive contribution to motherhood studies by addressing how becoming a mother is influenced not just by place and space but also by time and temporality. It explores the complexity and multiple temporalities that surround mothering, such as dreaming about, predicting and planning birth, delays in a baby arriving into the world, waiting and anticipating birth, labouring for periods of time that become blurred, and raising a child. Through maternal bodies it can be seen that time is not linear but stretched and punctuated in embodied ways. The book brings together research from a range of disciplinary and country contexts with contributions from scholars, visual artists and a fiction writer.

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Author:   Rachel Colls (Durham University, UK) ,  Abi McNiven (Oxford University, UK.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781138729964

ISBN 10:   1138729965
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Rachel Colls & Abi McNiven Part I: Planning/preparing 2. ' You will live to regret it Familial sentimentality and the affective construction of the biological clock' Merav Amir 3. One of the greatest fears among women is the fear of failing at being a mother Sabine Dressler 4. Children, children everywhere not a single for me : Adoption as an unpopular option for Bangladeshi childless women Papreen Nahar Part II: Birthing as event 5. Giving Birth to the Clock Katharine McKinnon 6. Waiting and watching, a welcome and a lament: a narrative tryptic of ambivalence at the birth of a daughter/granddaughter/niece Kate Powis, Georgia Butler and Maeve Butler 7. Telling Stories of Birth across the Decades Cecilia Colloseus Part III: The 'postnatal' 8. Perambulator Clare Quallmann 9. Getting better? The complex temporalities of experiencing and recovering from post-natal depression Jen Lea 10. Mamamilk: a visual exploration of becoming a mother Abigail Hunt 11. The Politics of Potential in Khayelitsha, South Africa Michelle Pentecost 12. Friday Records: A Document of Maternity Leave Lena Simic Part IV: Mothering as enduring 13. Intergenerational Echoes: Fraught Temporalities and Pregnancy Loss Abi McNiven 14. Presence through absence: Experiences of motherhood through political action in Argentina Natashe Lemos Dekker 15. The Art of Reminiscing Ruchika Singh 16. Mothering and Mentoring: Transnational Dialogues Ragnhild Lund and Anindita Datta

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Rachel Colls, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK Abi McNiven, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

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