Essential breakthroughs : : conversations about men, mothers, and mothering / / edited by Fiona Joy Green and Gary Lee Pelletier.

"Mothers, daughters and mothering have been a longtime focus of research and study in various academic disciplines, and common topics of interest in mainstream press and popular culture, yet the realities and experiences of sons, men, mothers and mothering have been less explored. In her 1980 a...

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Place / Publishing House:Bradford, Ontario : : Demeter Press,, [2015]
2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (179 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreward / Andrea Doucet
  • Introduction / Gary Lee Pelletier and Fiona Joy Green
  • Parental thinking: what does gender have to do with it? / Joanne S. Frye
  • Does the manny mother? / Gary Lee Pelletier
  • "Is he the son of no one?": a son's relational narrative on his mother / Nick J. Mule
  • Why isn't everyone celebrating me? My mom, bankruptcy, and my ego / Justin Butler
  • Lesbian families, sons, and mothering: parenting outside the boundaries / Alys Einion
  • Changing the gender script: Ecuadorian son's increased domesticity and emotive response to transnational mothering / Ruth Trinidad Galvan
  • TV's new dads: sensitive fatherhood and the return of hegemonic masculinity / Dwayne Avery
  • What's so funny about childbirth? The projection of patriarchal masculinity in popular comedic childbirth guides / Jeffrey Nall
  • Just along for the ride? A father-to-be searching for his role / C. Wesley Buerkle
  • Mommie dearest: undoing a gay identity through pregnancy / Jack Hixson-Vulpe
  • The ties that bind are broken: trans* breastfeeding practices, ungendering body parts, and unsexing parenting roles / A.J. Lowik
  • Becoming mother's nature: a queer son's perspective on mothering in an era of ecological decline / Michael Young.