Price: $24.95
Page Count: 228
Publication Date: September 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9866671-6-9
“This book brings up a plethora of important questions about the changing definitions of motherhood in different contexts, cultures and historical periods, and across different mediums of communication and educational settings (both formal and informal). The editors have created a provocative collection of essays on what is a relatively new and under-theorized topic for both women’s studies and education. The contributors present a great mix of narrative styles—combining personal and anecdotal examples with sound research, analysis, and intellectual scholarship.
—Alice E. Ginsberg, author/editor of Gender in Urban Education, Gender and Educational Philanthropy, The Evolutions of American Women’s Studies, and And Finally We Meet: Intersections and Intersectionality Among Feminist Activists, Academics and Students
“In a collection that demonstrates the fluid integration of theory and practice, Maternal Pedagogies provides a dynamic, diverse, and deft range of voices and experiences. Its exploration of critical, complex, creative, and challenging mothering relationships and locations examine pivotal questions surrounding advocacy, agency, and activism in terms that inform, renew, and often inspire. It is a work that compels continuing engagement and action.“
—Deborah Schnitzer, Professor and National 3M Teaching Fellow, Department of English,The University of Winnipeg
Introduction: Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom
Deborah Lea Byrd and Fiona Joy Green
1. Maternal Pedagogies: Not Just for the Female and Fertile
Queer Pedagogies and the Specter of the Maternal
Jane Ward
Pedagogy of the Obsessed: Infertility, ivf and How the Search for Maternity Affects Teaching, Learning and a Feminist Self
Rebecca L. Upton
Reclaiming Maternal Pedagogies in a British Columbia Aboriginal Head Start Program
Margaret MacDonald
2. Being a Recipient of Maternal Pedagogies: The Child/Student’s Point of View
Re-Searching Mommy: Narrating My Inquiry of Maternal Pedagogies
Jennifer Watt
African Maternal Pedagogies: Sociological and Educational Implications
Adwoa Ntozake Onuora
“If I Had a Normal Job, I Couldn’t Do This”: Exploring the Economics of Disability Advocacy Motherhood and Inclusive Education
Samantha Walsh and Elisabeth Harrison
3. Learning With and From One’s Children: Some Mothers’ Experiences
The Baffled Mother: Maternal Puzzlement in Narrative, in Pedagogy, in Academia
Martha Satz
Maternal Pedagogies as a Function of Mothers’ Ways of Knowing
Tabitha R. Holmes and Lynne A. Bond
Crossing Bridges: Maternal Pedagogies for the ad(h)d Child
Karen I. Case and Victoria Proulx-Schirduan
4. Pedagogical Othermothering
The African-American Teacher as Othermother 1863 to the Present
Margaret Auguste
Mothering Student Activists: Reflections on Maternal/Feminist Service-Learning Pedagogy
Deborah Lea Byrd
Mothering and Cancer: The Awakening of an Ecofeminist
Heidi Hutner
5. Motherlines: Recording, Analyzing, and Transmitting Maternal Pedagogies
Reading Our Foremothers: Victorian and Eighteenth-Century Literary Mothers and Millennial Readers
Katherine Ellison and Cynthia Huff
Aboriginal Single Mother Students: Teaching the Next Generation(s) by Example
Marlene Pomrenke
Feminist Maternal Pedagogies: Inside and Outside the Classroom
Fiona Joy Green
Notes on Contributors
Fiona Joy Green is a feminist mother, teaches women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg, and is the author of Feminist Mothering in Theory and Practice, 1985-1995: A Study in Transformative Politics and Practicing Feminist Mothering.
Deborah Byrd is Associate Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Lafayette College and co-editor of Teaching Against the Isms: Feminist Pedagogy Across the Disciplines.
