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Title Motherhood : power and oppression / edited by Marie Porter, Patricia Short, and Andrea O'Reilly.

Publication Info. Toronto : Women's Press, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly & Marie Porter -- Kindest cut? the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1990 / Lisa Featherstone -- Narrating breasts: constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories / Susanne Gannon & Babette Müller-Rockstroh -- Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city / Alison Bartlett -- "Pax Materna" or Mothers at war with the empire? ... / Karin Ikas -- Mothering and stress discourses: ... / Erika Horwitz & Bonita C. Long -- A lesser woman? fictional representations of the childless woman / Enza Gandolfo -- (Mis)conceptions: the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye & Paradise / -- Human and divine mothers in Hinduism / Tamara Ditrich -- Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore / Hing Ai Yun -- Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel / Ruby Newman -- Down Under power? Australian mothering experiences ... / Marie Porter -- Mothers at home: oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? / Elizabeth Reid Boyd -- Mothers at the margins: ... / Patricia Short -- Naming maternal alienation / Anne Morris -- Women of courage: the non-custodial mother / Julie Thacker -- Abandoning mothers and their children / Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender & Rosemary Aris -- When Eve left the garden: a modern tale about mothers who leave their families / Petra Büskens -- Conclusion: reflections on motherhood / Patricia Short.
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Subject Motherhood -- Congresses.
Motherhood.
Feminist theory -- Congresses.
Feminist theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Subject Motherhood.
Feminist theory.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Porter, Marie, 1938-
O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
Short, Patricia M.
Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood.
Other Form: Print version: Motherhood. Toronto : Women's Press, 2005 0889614547 9780889614543 (DLC) 2006445484 (OCoLC)60566944
ISBN 9781435604070 (electronic book)
1435604075 (electronic book)
0889614547 (paperback)
9780889614543