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Motherhood and Space

Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body

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  1. Sarah Hardy
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  2. Caroline Wiedmer
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Spaces of Motherhood

    1. Introduction: Spaces of Motherhood

      • Sarah Hardy, Caroline Wiedmer
      Pages 1-11

  5. Motherhood and Spaces of Embodiment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Uneasy Spaces: The Domestic Uncanny in Contemporary Installation Art

      • Fiona Carson
      Pages 243-260

    3. Winnicott’s Maternal Aesthetic: Absorption and Beholding in Potential Space

      • Ellen Brinks
      Pages 261-282

    4. Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces

      • Rebecca Kukla
      Pages 283-305
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About this book

This is a collection of essays on the spatial dimensions of motherhood. Engaging both theoretical and empirical perspectives, contributors describe the intersection of space and gender across a variety of contexts with both familiar and unexpected territories explored.

Reviews

"These well crafted, insightful essays join together feminist revisions of mothering with conceptions of space as active, generative, and often political. With evident respect for nuance of thought and complexities of mothers' lives, Sarah Hardy and Caroline Wiedmer have created not only a fine book but a strikingly original refreshing new subject: The Spaces of Motherhood." - Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace

"These insightful and thought provoking essays bring feminist theory, social geography, and discourse analysis together to provide significant new understandings of feminine and maternal subjectivities. On the basis of their complex and thorough analyses of material and discursive spaces and structures, these essays illuminate maternal experiences and meanings of mothering as well as the variety of ways in which human experiences can be situated in space and time. They make a very important contribution to the literature on motherhood." - Patrice DiQuinzio, Muhlenberg College, author of The Impossibility of

Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering

About the authors

CAROLINE WIEDMER is Director of the Cultural Studies Programme at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

SARAH HARDY is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Hampden Sydney College, Virginia, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Motherhood and Space

  • Book Subtitle: Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body

  • Editors: Sarah Hardy, Caroline Wiedmer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12103-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6785-5Published: 10 January 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-12103-5Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 335

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Gynecology, Popular Science in Education

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