21st-Century narratives of maternal ambivalence / Rachel Williamson.
2023
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Title
21st-Century narratives of maternal ambivalence / Rachel Williamson.
Author
Williamson, Rachel, author.
ISBN
9783031393518 (electronic bk.)
3031393511 (electronic bk.)
9783031393501
3031393503
3031393511 (electronic bk.)
9783031393501
3031393503
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 237 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-39351-8 doi
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HQ759
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.874/3
Summary
Motherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother’s capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap. Rachel Williamson is a policy advisor and senior trainer at domestic violence specialist organization SHINE (Safer Homes in New Zealand Everyday), working with employers and government departments to recognize and respond appropriately to staff experiencing domestic violence. She obtained her PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her articles have appeared in Continuum, Labour and Industry and In Media Res, and she has two chapters in the edited collections Maternal Connections: When Daughter Becomes Mother and Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections.
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Palgrave studies in (re)presenting gender, 2662-9372
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction: 'An Exquisite Suffering'
2. Contextualizing Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism
3. 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother
4. Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body
5. The Body in Extremis: Vocalizing Maternal Corporeality
6. Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience
7. "Strange and Wild": Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence.
2. Contextualizing Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism
3. 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother
4. Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body
5. The Body in Extremis: Vocalizing Maternal Corporeality
6. Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience
7. "Strange and Wild": Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence.