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Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities by Marie Porter and Julie Kelso is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities about?

Maternal research is a rapidly expanding, multi-disciplinary form of scholarship. Prior to second wave feminism most motherhood literature was written from a male perspective. This literature focused on telling mothers how to practice mothering without acknowledging the expertise of the mothers themselves. Research on motherhood as it is experienced in all its facets by mothers has only emerged in recent decades. This book is aimed at expanding academic knowledge of motherhood, from a feminist perspective, looking particularly at how maternal subjectivities can be represented and theorised. When mothers themselves (academic or not) are responsible for theorisation and representation of maternal ‘realities’, dominant theories and representations of motherhood are radically challenged. In Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities the contributors argue that it is no longer acceptable to regard mothers as mere objects of knowledge and research. They are primarily the subjects of knowledge and research.

Who reads Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities?

Author

Marie Porter and Julie Kelso

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Pub.; Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Cambridge Scholars

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781847184566

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Anthropology