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Do you sometimes have the feeling that your brain is going to mush and that your baby is literally sucking the life out of your neurons? Don't worry, you?re not losing your mind! In fact, your brain is getting a complete makeover and focusing on new areas of learning which are essential for parenting. In this book, Dr Jodi Pawluski questions our relationship with motherhood and explores, in an unprecedented way, the fantastic universe of the m...

The COVID-19 pandemic has made transparent the insidiousness of institutional anti-Black racism and its impact on Black people globally. Research and statistics suggest that COVID-19 disproportionately affects African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) people. This collection provides critical discussions on the complexities of resilience in Black communities. Specifically, it highlights the resilience of ACB people, aged 12 to 85 years from Nigeria,...

In June 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its Final Report titled Reclaiming Power and Place. The report documented 231 ?Calls for Justice? demanding immediate action against racialized, sexualized and gender-based violence. The report condemned Canadian society for its inaction and described the violence as ?a national tragedy of epic proportion.? It has been eight years since the release...

In this collection, contributors reject the narrative that suggests that the pain of mothers must never be exposed. They allow their pain to wander outside the frame of the requisite pathos, individual pieces reveal pain to be a complex and intersectional practice that encompasses denial and disenfranchisement where pain is birthed and named, disorientation leading to a search for stable ground, destabilization that inspires non-normative moth...

Give and Take: Motherhood and Creative Practice explores the diverse ways contemporary artists navigate the unique tensions of motherhood in all its varied stages. Becoming a mother is a life-changing event that can give mothers greater perspective, drive, and inspiration for making art. But motherhood also takes time and energy from pursuing creative work. This fundamental challenge, this give and take, is explored through this book as it for...

This book was originally conceived as a feminist gift for baby showers. Feminist academics are familiar with the wealth of maternal feminist scholarship that has been produced over the past five decades, much of it by Demeter Press. However, new generations of mothers are born all the time. In the spirit of the Barbie movie, this book is intended to provide a gentle entry point for those new to feminist scholarship, and also an enjoyable and i...

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This interdisciplinary anthology contributes to the contemporary dialogues about motherhood/mothering drawing attention to the experiences of motherhood/mothering both within medical practice as physicians as well as highlight motherhood/mothering experiences of medicine, examining both mothers as patients themselves and with their children

Held in the story of Persephone, we start where all women now begin their birth journey - with Zeus, in the structure of patriarchy. Then we move beyond, through the supportive hold of mother Demeter, then further into ourselves until we find the unique wonder of woman

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