Price: $39.95
Page Count: 300
Publication Date: July 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77258-576-6
Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change is a generative and provocative transdisciplinary text, taking on various forms and attending to multiple fields. This becomes an active and creative refusal of the b/ordering regimes trying to (en)force a normative world that excludes, divides, and oppresses; a world that many are now realizing has created the polycrises we are currently facing. In this way, the very shape of the text invites readers to necessarily embrace the entangled complexities of mothers, mothering, and climate change as a vital reorientation to worldmaking for more livable presents and futures.
- Mairi McDermott, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Learning, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
A profound, moving, and diverse collection—diverse both in terms of disciplinary approaches and the identities and perspectives of the artists included. This will be a great entry point for readers, scholars, and students interested in motherhood, climate change, and ecofeminist approaches to both.
- Jennifer Case, author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood
Introduction
Carolina Toscano and Sarah Marie Wiebe
Poetry, Artwork, and Photography
1.
Poetry
Pulkita Anand
2.
Watercolour
Dara Herman Zierlein
3.
Photography
Karuline Peruzzo
Memoir and Reflection
4.
Mothers of the Scorched Earth: Love in Times of Drought and Flame
Alyssa Perez-Whiting
5.
Fire, Fury, and Feminism: Navigating Motherhood, Womanhood, and Fires in a Changing Climate
Kelsey Winter
6.
The Brain on Belief: A Personal Journey to the Grey Area
How the Rhetoric of Environmental and Feminist Movements Shaped My Family Planning
E. Lorann Nuckols
Representations of Mothering and Climate Change in Literature
7.
Imagining motherhood in a post-apocalyptic world: reifying and resisting normative motherhood in the climate-change novels Clean Air by Sarah Blake and The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Andrea O’Reilly
8.
From Eco-Anxiety to Eco-Optimism: Affect, Action, and Mothering Amidst Climate Chaos in Distancia de rescate
Kate Ostrom
9.
"I Am This Animal": Evolving Ecogothic Motherhood and Femininity in Female Werewolf Texts
Jessi Brock
Mothers, Mothering, Climate Change and Resistance
10.
ReGeneraphilia: Loving Respect for ReGenerating Life
Irene Friesen Wolfstone
11.
Care-Based Creative Futures: Regenerative Maternal Ethics
Jessica Spring Weappa
12.
Water, Oil, Breast Milk: Natural Resources from Mother (Earth)
Thea Jones
13.
Caught between a rock and a hot place: How motherscholars engage in individual, collective, or other (in)actions to address climate precarity
MotherScholarCollective
14.
Aunties, Ancestors, and Small Acts: Indigenous Girls’ Lessons on Care in a Time of Crisis
Samantha Matharoo
15.
Embodied Futures: My pregnant body chooses hope
Erynne M. Gilpin
Conclusion
Sarah Marie Wiebe and Carolina Toscano
Contributor Notes
Carolina Toscano, PhD received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She teaches writing instruction and literature in the English department at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus and oversees the first-year writing program and the student writing center. Carolina studies feminist maternal theory, migration, and climate change in contemporary literature from Spain, Latin America, and the US.
Sarah Marie Wiebe, PhD is an Associate Professor, writer, researcher, mixed media storyteller and political ecologist based in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria. Her research interests include Climate CARE (Community Actions and Responses to Extreme weather events), public engagement, participatory governance and environmental justice. She is the Co-Founder of the FERN collaborative (Feminist Environmental Research Network) and her most recently published book with Fernwood Press entitled Hot Mess: Mothering through a Code Red Climate Emergency emerged after her lived experience as a new parent during the 2021 B.C. heat dome). She received the Canadian Political Science Association 2025 Teaching Excellence Award and the Donald Smiley Book Prize in 2024. For more information about Dr. Wiebe’s scholarship, see: www.sarahmariewiebe.com.
