Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

by Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 08/10/2018

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This volume focuses on the ways in which mothers are marginalized based on intersecting identities, such as immigration status, race, class, disability, sexuality, and how these women mother from the margins. Divided into three sections, this collection brings forth the voices and experiences of mothers and highlights the institutions and laws that marginalize them. In the first section, mothers face barriers such as institutional constraints that block them from needed resources and the ability to mother as they see fit. In section two, contributors examine the borders of marginalized mothering - boundaries reflected through citizenship, walls, geography, dealings with intimate partners and welfare offices, or prison bars. Readings in this section highlight mothers’ efforts to transcend, resist, or even just survive experiences with borders. The final section centers on mothers that explicitly adopt mothering strategies of resistance or explicitly use their status as mothers in their activism. Topics range from mothers who engage in milk sharing to mothers of color whom organize against police brutality. Throughout the volume, contributors demonstrate the striking resilience of these mothers, and their resistance in challenging the ideologies and institutions that marginalize them.

ISBN:
9781787564015
9781787564015
Category:
Gender studies: women
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
08-10-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Emerald Publishing Limited

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