Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body

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This is a collection of essays on the spatial dimensions of motherhood. Engaging both theoretical and empirical perspectives, contributors describe the intersection of space and gender across a variety of contexts with both familiar and unexpected territories explored. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction: Spaces of Motherhood....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 MotherSpace: Disciplining through the Material and Discursive....Pages 15-33 “Magdalene versus the Nation”: Ireland as a Space of Compulsory Motherhood in Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River....Pages 35-53 An Office of One’s Own: Stories of Power, Space, and Motherhood in the Swiss Academy....Pages 55-72 The Maternity Hospital: Blueprint for Redesigning Childbirth....Pages 73-86 The Birthplace....Pages 87-103 Closer to Home: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy....Pages 105-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme....Pages 115-147 Black Women and Motherhood....Pages 149-159 Integrating Home and Wage Workplace: Women’s Daily Lives in a Canadian Suburb....Pages 161-183 Locating Lesbian Parent Families....Pages 185-201 Like a Mother: Paid “Mother-work” Performed in Private Spaces....Pages 203-220 “You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away I think”: A Case Study of Family Photos, Mothering, and Familial Space....Pages 221-240 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Uneasy Spaces: The Domestic Uncanny in Contemporary Installation Art....Pages 243-260 Winnicott’s Maternal Aesthetic: Absorption and Beholding in Potential Space....Pages 261-282 Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces....Pages 283-305 Breeding Ambiguity: The Womb as Alien Space in the X-Files....Pages 307-322 Back Matter....Pages 323-335