@article{1441107,
      recid = {1441107},
      author = {Simic, Lena, and Underwood-Lee, Emily,},
      title = {Maternal performance : feminist relations /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Motherhood is lived in the moment and in all of time state  Lena Simic and Emily Underwood-Lee in their dazzling book  on maternal performance that defies categorisation. Putting  into conversation the complex histories of feminist  theorising about motherhood, and an array of contemporary  maternal performance, this extraordinary work is inventive,  personal, strident, scholarly, political and profound in  equal measure, and quietly moving in unexpected ways. -Lisa  Baraitser, Professor of Psychosocial Theory, Department of  Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London What a  joy to read a text that so fully embodies the idea of  maternal performance, not only through extensive scholarly  inquiry but also through conversational, relational, and  epistolary engagement between the authors. Lena Simic and  Emily Underwood-Lee offer an important model of feminist  maternal scholarship alongside nuanced understandings of  what maternal performance can entail. - - Rachel Epp  Buller, Associate Professor in Visual Arts and Design,  Bethel College, US 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. Lena Simic is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill  University. 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. 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1441107},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80226-4},
}