TY - JOUR AU - Baran, Linn PY - 2018/07/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Mother Lode: Memories of My Mother Outlaw(s) JF - Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement JA - JMI VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Contents DO - UR - https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/40486 SP - AB - <p>This personal essay is a most special tribute to the author’s own mother Bernadette Sheila Ledgard Baran (1930-2015) and includes a re-visioning of her own feminist research and several papers that she has presented at conferences over the past decade inspired by the stories based in her own motherline. As a life writing “love letter” for a mother and daughter’s mutual project of bearing witness to Adrienne Rich’s continuing vision for “mother outlaws” to embody a more empowered mothering within the institution of motherhood, this essay equally acknowledges the challenges of reclaiming the possibilities for such a feminist mothering of resistance when a legacy of potentially misunderstood “outlaw mothering” is present within one’s own maternal past.</p> ER -