Another Mother - Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors - who make motherhood possible for them.

List of contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Birthing the book: Shanta’s story part I
2. Politics and power
Part II: Experimental life writing
3. Alison’s story
4. Charlotte’s story
5. Shanta’s story part II
6. Rubi’s story
7. Robin’s story
8. Lorraine’s story
9. Shanta’s story part III
10. Margaret’s story
11. Contextual note
Part III: Conclusion
12. Contributing to new understandings of motherhood through expansion and analysis of life writing forms

About the author

Shanta Everington is Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK, where she gained her PhD in Creative Writing. A creative and critical writer working across a range of forms, much of Shanta’s writing explores recurring themes of difference, identity and belonging. Previous books include the novel Marilyn and Me (2007), narrated by a young woman with a learning disability who models herself on Marilyn Monroe, and young adult novel XY (2014), set in a dystopian world where humans are born intersex with gender assigned at birth. She is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow (2021–23) and a member of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE).

Summary

Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners – the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors – who make motherhood possible for them.

Product details

• Authors: Shanta Everington, Shanta (The Open University Everington, Everington Shanta
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032268408
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226840-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Adoption, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Sociology: family & relationships, Adoption & fostering, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering