Everyday world-making : : toward an understanding of affect and mothering / / edited by Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lane, Julia, 1986-; Joensuu, Eleonora, 1983-
• Place / Publishing House: Bradford, ON : : Demeter Press,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 pages) :; illustrations
• Other title: The everyday world of affect and mothering : an introduction /; Sisterly conversation : considering affect with and through the pregnant and birthing body /; Becoming mother, performing mothering /; milk /; Navigating the waters of early motherhood : somatic awareness, creative expression, and being held /; A poetics of maternal failure /; Objects of a maternal haunting /; Empty maternal : simulating maternal care in Marina Abramovic's The artist is present /; The "dark side" of mothering /; That baby will cost you : /; Blood, mud, poop, and vomit : reimagining disgust through the mother-child relationship /; Unforgivable or outlaw emotions? the heart of maternal darkness in Grazia Verasani's From Medea /; fail /; Blurring boundaries, manoeuvring motherhood /; Anishinaabe fasting : respecting the power of creation /; "Mothering the mother" : doulas and the affective space /; Instinct, expertise, connection : the affective experience of mother's intuition /; Families we don't choose : affects of resisting the institution of motherhood /; Sisterly conversation : considering affect through mothering experiences /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9781772581409 (paperback); 9781772581546 (ebook)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu.

"This cross-disciplinary collection considers the intersection of affect and mothering, with the aim of expanding both the experiential and theoretical frameworks that guide our understanding of mothering and of theories of affect. It brings together creative, reflective, poetic, and theoretical pieces to question, challenge, and re-conceptualize motherhood through the lens of affect, and affect through the lens of motherhood. The collection also aims to explore less examined mothering experiences such as failure, disgust, and ambivalence in order to challenge normative paradigms and narratives surrounding mothers and mothering. The authors in this collection demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities opened up by a simultaneous consideration of affect and mothering, thereby broadening our understanding of the complexities and nuances of the always changing experiences of affect and mothering."--