Kate Boyer

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spaces and Politics of Motherhood considers motherhood through themes at the cutting-edge of social and feminist theory including: materiality and material agency; place and memory in the formation of maternal identity; issues relating to parenting in public, and the politics of combining breastfeeding with wage-work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 237g
• ISBN-13: 9781786603081
• ISBN-10: 178660308X
• Artikelnr.: 51142585

Autorenporträt

Kate Boyer is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Maternal Becomings: space, time and identity in early motherhood
2. Motherhood, Space and Politics with the World: spatial practice and material agency in maternal becomings (with Justin Spinney)
3. Agentic Breastmilk: distributed agencies of infant feeding
4. Breastfeeding in Public: affect, public comfort and the agency of strangers
5. Mothers Acting Back: claiming space through lactation advocacy ('lactivism')
6. Combining Care-work with Wage work: a consideration of the changing policy landscape
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index