1st Edition

Mothering Performance Maternal Action

Edited By Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee Copyright 2023
260 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal... Read more

Introduction, Section 1 - Exchange Chapter 1. Thinking Back Through our Mothers: The Editors in Conversation Chapter 2. Conversations with Mother Artists on the Dynamics of Support in India Chapter 3. HomeBody Chapter 4. Siôl Fagu: A Consideration in Four Stories Chapter 5. Mom, Me, and the Maternal at WorkChapter 6. There Are Other Worlds: Maternal Knowledge Beyond Borders Section 2 - Practice Chapter 7. Dramaturgies of Support and Interruption in the Process of Wonderwoman: The Naked Truth Notnow Collective Chapter 8. Gravida, the Weight and Wait of Pregnancy to Mothering Transformation: A Performance Exploring Traumatic Memory and the Energy of Creation Chapter 9. Motherswitch Chapter 10. Did I request thee, Maker, from my minced meat to mould me infant? Or MANIFESTO FOR A MATERNAL AESTH-ETHICS, Proposal for "PROVOCATION and PRACTICE" Chapter 11. Maternal Poetics of Care in Plastic Spaces Chapter 12. Claiming Spaces: Aprons of Power-Places of Power performances Chapter 13. Who Does she Think she is? Kate Middleton?! Leaky Escapes in Un-classy Maternal Performance Section 3 – Solidarity Chapter 14. Physical and Symbolic Loss: Composite Monologues of Women Parenting While Incarcerated Chapter 15. Performing and Transforming the Maternal: A Reflexive Inquiry using Digital Storytelling for Mutual Learning Chapter 16. Weaving Enfleshed Citizenship (M)Otherwise Chapter 17. Despatches from the Front: Midwifery in a Pandemic Chapter 18. Maternal Performance as Peacebuilding, Conclusion: On Sustaining Mothering Performance

Biography

Lena Šimić is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University.

Emily Underwood-Lee is Professor of Performance Studies at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales.