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"The central directive of the current COVID-19 pandemic has been conveyed in two words "Stay Home". Yet, to date, no research has examined how households are functioning and managing under social isolation. With little or no support, and under close to impossible conditions, many mothers engage in paid labour from the home while being concurrently responsible for their children's care and education as daycare and schools remain closed. With no respite from 24/7 days, single mothers, in particular, live in an insufferable isolated microenvironment with no one allowed into their homes and most outdoor activity for children cancelled. The collection considers how mothers are managing the new requirements of motherwork under the destabilizing restraints of this pandemic. In its explorations, the collection addresses why the essential and frontline work of mothering in this pandemic has been discounted, disregarded and dismissed by governments, media, and the larger society. By way of creative art, poetry, photography and creative writing along with scholarly research, the collection seeks to make visible what has been invisibilized and render audible what has been silenced: the care and crisis of motherwork through and after the COVID-19 pandemic."--

"Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities."--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Why an Anthology on Feminist Parenting? -- African, Global South, and Western Feminism(s): Theorizing as Boundary Work -- Surveying the Literature on Feminist Mothering and Fathering -- Being and Becoming a Feminist Parent and Doing Feminist Parenting Together with Others -- The Organization of this Collection -- Part I: Feminist Mothering Journeys -- Part II: Parenting Is Political: Of Feminist Mothers' Struggles and Resistance -- Part III: Contributions from African Feminist Fathers and Children -- Part I -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Making a Conscious Choice to be a Mother -- Mothering Malaika -- Malaika's Narration of Her Experience -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- We're Going to Have a Baby! -- A Missed Miscarriage -- Unwanted Advice -- A Dream Deferred? -- My Models for Feminist Parenting -- Chapter 3 -- Recognizing and Challenging Gender Bias -- Gender Bias in the Household -- Skin Colour -- Brand Items -- Intersectionalities: Gender, Class, and Race -- Sexual Diversity and Sex Education -- Demonstrating Feminism Resilience and Strength -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 4 -- Introduction -- Grandmother's Homestead -- Residential Arrangements and Childrearing -- Parenting Other Children -- Marriage: A Few Things Changed -- Negotiating My Marriage Ceremony -- A Son in August: It Takes a Village… -- A Daughter in August, Too -- A Patriarchal School and a Feminist Parent -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Self-identifying as an African Feminist Mother -- Mothering from a Distance: Contesting the Notions of Good Mothering -- Practicing Feminist Parenting -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 -- Introduction -- Search -- Discovery -- A Muslim Feminist Mother -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9.

"Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The collection aims to fill a gap on feminist parenting in the existing literature by bringing timely post-Western perspectives. More specifically, the anthology's main contribution is its explicit focus on feminist parenting from the margins to the global periphery: from Africa and its diaspora, from the Global South to Europe and America. The 27 parents from diverse backgrounds, walks of life and countries gathered in this anthology share powerful responses to the above questions by narrating their experiences of some of the challenges, dilemmas, promises and compromises of parenting with a feminist perspective. The volume is the one of the first collections published with first-person essays describing very touching, beautiful and sometimes painful stories of what it means and more importantly what it costs to become a feminist parent with an intersectional approach. In doing so, the authors of this book aim at (re)claiming parenting as a necessarily political terrain for subversion, radical transformation and resistance to patriarchal oppression and sexism."--

"Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The collection aims to fill a gap on feminist parenting in the existing literature by bringing timely post-Western perspectives. More specifically, the anthology's main contribution is its explicit focus on feminist parenting from the margins to the global periphery: from Africa and its diaspora, from the Global South to Europe and America. The 27 parents from diverse backgrounds, walks of life and countries gathered in this anthology share powerful responses to the above questions by narrating their experiences of some of the challenges, dilemmas, promises and compromises of parenting with a feminist perspective. The volume is the one of the first collections published with first-person essays describing very touching, beautiful and sometimes painful stories of what it means and more importantly what it costs to become a feminist parent with an intersectional approach. In doing so, the authors of this book aim at (re)claiming parenting as a necessarily political terrain for subversion, radical transformation and resistance to patriarchal oppression and sexism."--

"To be a young mother is almost by definition to be considered an "unfit" mother. Thus, it is not surprising that young Canadian, U.S. and Australian mothers are often scorned, stigmatized and monitored. This is a book about being young, being a mother, and grappling with what it means to inhabit these two complex social positions. This book critiques the dominant, negative construction of young motherhood. Contributors reject the notion that the "ideal" mother is a 30ish, white, middle-class, able-bodied, married, heterosexual woman situated in a nuclear family. This collection privileges the insights and stories of a diverse array of young mothers such as; a young mother coerced into giving her child up for a adoption, a young queer mother who has been parenting a child borne by her trans partner and who is now pregnant herself and many more. The tales analyzed and recounted in the collection record experiences of pain and joy, frustration and success, struggle and resistance, oppression and empowerment. We invite readers to hear the all too often silenced stories of young mothers, to learn what prevents and what allows these mothers to lead lives of grit, determination, authenticity, and agency as they strive to lovingly care for themselves, their children, and in many cases, other young mothers."--

"Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, literature, communication studies, sociology, women's and gender studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy, and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide"--

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of parents who have full professorial positions (in faculties of engineering and nursing) in universities in Ontario, Canada, with a particular focus on the ways in which gender shapes professors' parenting experiences.Design/methodology/approachWe employ a case study methodology involving quantitative and qualitative data collected from a survey emailed to full professors in Ontario.FindingsData from the study reveal that numerous strategies, resources (e.g. informal social support networks, supportive partners) and institutional supports (i.e. pausing the tenure clock after child birth) are required to assist academics to meet the extensive demands of their positions, while they perform caregiving responsibilities for their children.Research limitations/implicationsThe protected ground of family status is inconsistently applied in Canadian human rights policy, considerably reducing its transformative potential. Yet, while family status gains greater recognition in rights-based practice, we argue that it be added to forthcoming institutional equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plans across post-secondary institutions to better ensure equity for mothers who shoulder significant paid and unpaid work responsibilities.Originality/valueWhile there is literature on parenting in academia, family status is rarely featured as an intersection of interest in EDI research. This article aims to fill this gap.