Transformative Motherscholarship and Art - Public Pedagogies of Childhood

This book considers the identity of the motherscholar, a mother who draws from their practice of mothering to inform their art and scholarship and from their scholarship to inform how they mother. By considering the identity of the motherscholar the contributors from the Canada, Finland, India, and the USA work to reconceptualize feminist approaches to childhood research and uncover formerly invisibilized public pedagogies of childhood. Through theoretical research, visual art, stories and oral histories, the contributors explore how their fused identities affect and multiply structural and interpersonal transformation in homes, in communities, and in pedagogical spaces. They describe a mother as a self-identifying or non-binary person with caregiving responsibilities including but not limited to biological mothers, adoptive mothers, stepmothers, alloparents, grandmothers, mothers who are childless, mothers who are grieving, and mothers who are experiencing infertility.>

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• Authors: Georgina Badoni, Shana Cinquemani, Eliza Garber
• Assisted by: Georgina Badoni (Editor), Shana Cinquemani (Editor), Elizabeth Garber (Editor), Garber Elizabeth (Editor), Marissa McClure Sweeny (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9781350435728
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43572-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Feminist Thought in Childhood Research
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Relating to childhood, Mothering; Feminist theory; childhood art; Art pedagogy