Performing Maternities - Political, Social and Feminist Enquiry

Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the normative, the queer, the transgressive, the joy and the pain of performing maternity. The book asks key questions about the construction of maternal identities and mythologies in the contemporary world, the ways these impact on individuals in different social, economic and sexual identities, and the ways in which - as mothers, writers, artists, parents and grandparents -we can challenge and address those identities.

About the author

Kate Aughterson is an independent scholar who has taught in UK universities for thirty years. Jess Moriarty is a principal lecturer in creative writing.

Summary

By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time – simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as commonality. 32 b&w illus.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kate Aughterson (Editor), Kate (University of Manchester) Aughterson (Editor), Jess Moriarty (Editor), Jess (University of Brighton) Moriarty (Editor)
• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2024
• EAN: 9781835950166
• ISBN: 978-1-83595-016-6
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 250 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 657 g
• Series: Performance and Communities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works