Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective
Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides the reader with an insight into certain representations of mothers and motherhood in history and todays societies in some areas of the world, notably in Britain and Asia.
Key facts about the history of motherhood are presented, together with the use of very recent notions and phrases portraying good and bad mothers. An analysis of the concepts of naming and blaming, along with regret with respect to mothers in 21st century societies, provides food for thought. Other issues addressed are varied and numerous: The politics of early intervention, feminist critique, mothers with disabilities and mothers of disabled children, incarcerated mothers, surrogate mothers, teenage mothers, lesbian mothers, and mothering in Eastern Asia, namely in China, Japan, and Korea. Interestingly, both visual arts and literature play a crucial role in this analysis.
The publication will appeal to students, academics, researchers, and the general public interested in and seeking to comprehend the shifts that have occurred over time in connection with the vast and inexhaustible subject of motherhood and mothers a private and public matter. Readers are also provided with a rich reference section dealing with the latest publications on the issues tackled by prominent academics and researchers in human geography, womens studies, sociology, gender studies, contemporary history, and the arts.
Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq is Professor of Contemporary British Studies at the University of Tours in France, and has done comparative research for the European Commission on families. Her research interests also span young, lone parenthood, domestic violence in Britain and France, in addition to qualitative studies. Her latest publication (2017) is Fertility, Health and Lone Parenting: European Contexts, Routledge.
Routledge Research in Gender and Society
77 Trauma, Womens Mental Health, and Social Justice
Pitfalls and Possibilities
Emma Tseris
78 Wellness in Whiteness
Biomedicalisation and the Promotion of Whiteness and Youth among Women
Amina Mire
79 Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India
A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam
Saba Hussain
80 White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia
The Good Ol Aussie Bloke
Andrea Waling
81 Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective
Continuity and Change
Edited by Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq
82 Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective
Intersections of Animal Oppression, Patriarchy and Domination of the Earth
Gwen Hunnicutt
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Katherine Albertson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Department of Law and Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Katherine has 15 years experience of conducting a wide variety of research and evaluation across the UK criminal justice sector. Katherine conducted consultation work with stakeholders involved in the provision of Mother and Baby Units in the UK prison sector. This work was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NHIR), Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) conducted in partnership with the Mother and Infant Research Centre at the University of York.
Sarah Bekaert is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her current research and publications focus on teenaged pregnancy and parenthood, and issues pertaining to the teenage years such as intimate partner violence. She has many years experience working in sexual health, in schools, with young offenders, and with children in care. Sarah was co-founder of CHYPS Plus, a teenage health demonstration site in London (UK), commissioned by the Department of Health to provide creative and innovative health care for vulnerable young people.
Florence Binard is Professor in Modern British History and Gender Studies in the Department of Intercultural Studies and Applied Languages at Universit de Paris (France). She is a member of ICT (Identities, Cultures, Territories), and she is the President of the Socit Anglophone sur le Genre et les Femmes (SAGEF), She is co-editor of Fminismes du XXI sicle: une troisime vague? (2017), Femmes, sexe, genre dans laire anglophone: invisibilisation, stigmatisation et combats (2017); Revisiting the Great War (RFCB Spring 2015). She is the author of Les Mres de la nation: fminisme et eugnisme en Grande-Bretagne (2016).
lisabeth Bouzonviller is Professor of American literature at Jean Monnet University in St Etienne, France, where she teaches American literature and culture. Besides various articles on canonical and Native American literature, she is the author of Francis Scott Fitzgerald ou la plnitudedu silence (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2000), Francis Scott Fitzgerald, crivain du dsquilibre (Belin, 2000), and Louise Erdrich. Mtissage et criture, histoires dAmrique (Presses Universitaires de St Etienne, 2014). She is a member of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, and has contributed not only to its Review and Newsletter, but also to A Distant Drummer: Foreign Perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald (Peter Lang, 2007) and Fitzgerald in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Catherine Burke is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Postgraduate lead. She manages a module in the pre-registration BSc Midwifery, is course leader for the MSc Perinatal Mental Health, is part of the Inter-Professional Education team at level 6, and has extensive experience in developing and delivering training materials for health professionals. Catherine has also worked regionally and as a Practice facilitator in a large maternity unit implementing change at scale. More recently, Catherine has been part of a Sheffield Hallam University team working on a European incentive to support pregnant refugee and migrant women. As a SureStart Midwife, she developed and led a team of breastfeeding support workers and family support workers, working with a co-located team of midwives to work in innovative ways to enhance midwifery services for a vulnerable community.