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Explores the effects of nationalist sentiment on motherhood, arguing that nationalist propaganda urges mothers to support war & reproduce to increase the population of the nation. The case of war in the former Yugoslavia illustrates how the church & state usurped control of women's bodies by supporting nationalist antiabortion movements, even to the degree of accepting rape-related pregnancies. Patriarchal constructions are seen in the objectification of women in relation to the notion of rape as ethnic cleansing; ie, only the male seed determines the identity of a child that a women must passively agree to carry. The psychological trauma caused by wartime rape is discussed, as well as the UN's responsibility for it. M. Nichols-Wagner

Introduction. The afterlives of Malaysia Goodson, or Black mothering in crisis -- Black gold : remaking Black breasts in an era of crisis -- In the room : birthwork by women of color in a state of emergency -- Black maternal aesthetics : the making of a non-crisis style -- Writing Black motherhood : Black maternal memoirs and economies of grief -- Conclusion. The afterlives of Jazmine Headley -- Coda. "All mothers were summoned when George Floyd called out for his mama" : notes from the third pandemic.

An extract from Mothers and Shadows, in which the Argentinian novelist recreates one of the demonstrations of the 'mothers of the Plaza de Mayo' — the mothers of the disappeared

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