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- Bridges the fields of performance, maternal studies and ethics
- Includes chapters on maternal loss, pregnancy, birth, generations and futures
- Contends that maternal performance brings the private and domestic work of mothering into the public sphere
Part of the book series: Contemporary Performance InterActions (CPI)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations bridges the fields of performance, feminism, maternal studies, and ethics. It loosely follows the life course with chapters on maternal loss, pregnancy, birth, aftermath, maintenance, generations, and futures. Performance and the maternal have an affinity as both are lived through the body of the mother/artist, are played out in real time, and are concerned with creating ethical relationships with an other – be that other the child, the theatrical audience, or our wider communities. The authors contend that maternal performance takes the largely hidden, private and domestic work of mothering and makes it worthy of consideration and contemplation within the public sphere.
Authors and Affiliations
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Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK
Lena Šimić
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University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK
Emily Underwood-Lee
About the authors
Lena Šimić is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research areas include contemporary performance practice, live art, art activism, feminist theatre and performance, and critical arts practice in relation to climate crisis, ecology and environment.
Emily Underwood-Lee is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at the University South Wales, UK. Her work focuses on amplifying little heard personal stories. She has a particular interest in the performance of the maternal, gender, health/illness and heritage.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maternal Performance
Book Subtitle: Feminist Relations
Authors: Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee
Series Title: Contemporary Performance InterActions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80226-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80225-7Published: 28 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80228-8Published: 29 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80226-4Published: 27 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5870
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5889
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 252
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy