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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
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).
Riassunto
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.
