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This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood
and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life
writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range
of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns,
and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates
the significance of literary narratives for understanding and
critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and
subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and
mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural
location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed
in one national context, as well as those who are in "in-between"
positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground
and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied
experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is "normal" or
natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness;
mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the
(im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise
questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence
and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood
and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life
writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range
of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns,
and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates
the significance of literary narratives for understanding and
critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and
subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and
mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural
location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed
in one national context, as well as those who are in "in-between"
positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground
and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied
experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is "normal" or
natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness;
mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the
(im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise
questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence
and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.
This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and
opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was
set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives
on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and
gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes,
discourse analysis or interviews, one rarely has to explain them to
colleagues. They are the tools used. But when working in inter- or
transdisciplinary settings, such tools require explanations. These
conversations make evident that trans and interdisciplinary
(gender) research is a not just a novelty requiring an adjectival
prefix 'trans-' or 'inter-', it is something done, performed,
practiced. Moreover it is something done in particular spaces, a
consequence of particular meetings - transgressive encounters. This
collection is built on work conducted under the GenNa:
Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters Research Programme,
funded by the Swedish research council. It brings together a range
of scholars from the humanities, natural, physical, life, and
social sciences by so doing it reflects on the challenges, risks
and opportunities of doing trans- and interdisciplinary work. The
result is a collection that uses a multitude of tools to examine
issues such as sexual difference, hydro power exploitation,
research seminars, dairy farming, the spaces between molecules,
film and identity. They are witness to the diversity created
through transgressive encounters and illustrations of doing inter-
and transdisciplinary research.
This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and
opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was
set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives
on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and
gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes,
discourse analysis or interviews, one rarely has to explain them to
colleagues. They are the tools used. But when working in inter- or
transdisciplinary settings, such tools require explanations. These
conversations make evident that trans and interdisciplinary
(gender) research is a not just a novelty requiring an adjectival
prefix 'trans-' or 'inter-', it is something done, performed,
practiced. Moreover it is something done in particular spaces, a
consequence of particular meetings - transgressive encounters. This
collection is built on work conducted under the GenNa:
Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters Research Programme,
funded by the Swedish research council. It brings together a range
of scholars from the humanities, natural, physical, life, and
social sciences by so doing it reflects on the challenges, risks
and opportunities of doing trans- and interdisciplinary work. The
result is a collection that uses a multitude of tools to examine
issues such as sexual difference, hydro power exploitation,
research seminars, dairy farming, the spaces between molecules,
film and identity. They are witness to the diversity created
through transgressive encounters and illustrations of doing inter-
and transdisciplinary research.
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