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Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 7, No 1 (2016)
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 7, No 1 (2016)
Published:
2016-08-02
Editorial Masthead
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Contents
The Power of a Black Mother’s Anger: “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” as a Critique of White Abolitionist Discourse
Deborah L. Byrd
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Maternal Ecocriticism and the Ecology of Motherhood in Jean Toomer’s Cane
Anissa Janine Wardi
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Masculine Expansions of Othermothering in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Jazz, and Beloved
Naomi Mercer
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Disruptive Speech: A Discursive Analysis of Single Mother Memoirs and the Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality
Emily R. M. Lind
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We Need to Talk about Patriarchal Motherhood: Essentialization, Naturalization and Idealization in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin
Andrea O'Reilly
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Lessons in Life on the Verge of Death: Spiritual Mothering in Ai Laṛkī by Hindi Author Krishna Sobti
Florence Pasche Guignard
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“This Is How to Make a Good Medicine to Throw Away a Child Before It Even Becomes a Child”: The Maternal Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and the Politics of Nature and Knowing in the Caribbean
Rachel O'Donnell
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Othermothering and Othermothers in the Harry Potter Series
Aurélie Lacassagne
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Contemporary Australian Motherhood Memoir as Personal, Creative, and Political Narrative
Lynn Garlick
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Poetry as Memoir: Toi Derricotte’s Natural Birth and Redefining Motherhood
Nicole L. Willey
The Hierarchy of Motherhood in Adoption: Literary Narratives of Kinship, Maternal Desire, and Precarity
Kate Greenway
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Folio
Editor's Notes
Jane Satterfield
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Chicken-Hearted
Jennifer Givhan
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The Polar Bear
Jennifer Givhan
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Marriage Interpreted through Animal Science
Jennifer Givhan
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Ghost Girl in the Recovery Room
Jennifer Givhan
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Reabsorption Elegy
Jennifer Givhan
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Jeremiah Growing
Jennifer Givhan
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Prayer
Jennifer Givhan
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Madhouse of Spirits
Jennifer Givhan
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I've Carried an Elephant
Jennifer Givhan
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Bloom
Jennifer Givhan
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Book Reviews
What We Hold in Our Hands
Judy Battaglia
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The Goodbye Year: Wisdom and Culinary Therapy to Survive Your Child’s Senior Year of High School (and Reclaim the You of You)
Maya E. Bhave
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Motherload: Making It All Better in Insecure Times
Pat Breton
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Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments
Rachel Epp Buller
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Making Modern Mothers
Patty Douglas
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Black Motherhood(s): Contours, Contexts, and Considerations
Talia Esnard
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Got Teens? The Doctor Moms’ Guide to Sexuality, Social Media and Other Adolescent Realities
Nancy Simpson Greenwood
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The Gift in the Heart of Language: The Maternal Source of Meaning
Nané Jordan
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Memoralizing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s Day
Lisa Lynn
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The Good Mother Myth
Margaret MacDonald
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Mothers of Bedford
Naomi M. McPherson
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Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering
Naomi R. Mercer
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Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
Aidan Moir
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Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience
Shelley M. Park
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Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a “Good” Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence
Helena Vissing
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Contributor Notes
Contributor Notes
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