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Informationen zum Autor Maria Fannin is Reader in Human Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol! UK. Her research focuses on the social and economic dimensions of health! medicine and technology! particularly in relation to reproduction and women's health. She has conducted research on commercial cord blood banking! conceptualisations of hoarding and exchange in the biological tissue economy! and feminist geographical approaches to a 'bodily commons' in a post- genomic age. She is currently researching the multiple forms of value attached to human placental tissue in the biosciences! medicine and alternative health practices. Her work has appeared in Body & Society! Feminist Theory and New Genetics & Society. Maud Perrier is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol! UK. Her research interests include feminist pedagogies! emotions! arts based methodologies! class and contemporary mothering. She is currently investigating women food social entrepreneurs in Sydney! Australia with Elaine Swan. She has published in Sociology! Sociological Review! Sociological Research Online! Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies! Humanities! Gender and Education and Feminist Formations. Zusammenfassung Refiguring postmaternalism requires extending the maternal beyond mothers and heterosexual nuclear families, and the memorialization of the maternal needs to diversify to destabilise associations of the maternal with neoliberalism and the depoliticization of feminism. This book was first published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Refiguring the Postmaternal 1. Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive 2. The ‘Good’ Attached Mother: An Analysis of Postmaternal and Postracial Thinking in Birth and Breastfeeding Policy in Neoliberal Britain 3. A Vision for Postmaternalism: Institutionalising Fathers’ Engagement with Care 4. Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism 5. Embodied Care and Planet Earth: Ecofeminism, Maternalism and Postmaternalism 6. Postmaternal Times and Radical Feminist Thinking 7. Shape-shifting Around the Maternal: A Response ...
