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Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
List of contents
Introduction, Section 1 - Exchange
Chapter 1. Thinking Back Through our Mothers: The Editors in Conversation
Chapter 2. Conversations with Mother Artists on the Dynamics of Support in India
Chapter 3. HomeBody
Chapter 4. Siôl Fagu: A Consideration in Four Stories
Chapter 5. Mom, Me, and the Maternal at Work
Chapter 6. There Are Other Worlds: Maternal Knowledge Beyond Borders Section 2 - Practice
Chapter 7. Dramaturgies of Support and Interruption in the Process of Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth Notnow Collective
Chapter 8. Gravida, the Weight and Wait of Pregnancy to Mothering Transformation: A Performance Exploring Traumatic Memory and the Energy of Creation
Chapter 9. Motherswitch
Chapter 10. Did I request thee, Maker, from my minced meat to mould me infant? Or MANIFESTO FOR A MATERNAL AESTH-ETHICS, Proposal for "PROVOCATION and PRACTICE"
Chapter 11. Maternal Poetics of Care in Plastic Spaces
Chapter 12. Claiming Spaces: Aprons of Power-Places of Power performances
Chapter 13. Who Does she Think she is? Kate Middleton?! Leaky Escapes in Un-classy Maternal Performance Section 3 - Solidarity
Chapter 14. Physical and Symbolic Loss: Composite Monologues of Women Parenting While Incarcerated
Chapter 15. Performing and Transforming the Maternal: A Reflexive Inquiry using Digital Storytelling for Mutual Learning
Chapter 16. Weaving Enfleshed Citizenship (M)Otherwise
Chapter 17. Despatches from the Front: Midwifery in a Pandemic
Chapter 18. Maternal Performance as Peacebuilding, Conclusion: On Sustaining Mothering Performance
About the author
Lena Šimi¿ is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.
Emily Underwood-Lee is Professor of Performance Studies at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales.
Summary
Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.
