Public discourse maintains a deep cultural anxiety around expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to the society as a whole. In a poli

Investigates oral history, life narratives, and Web blogs to confront the core claims of postmaternal thought and challenges dominant representations of feminis

This book explores the concept of the ‘postmaternal’ as a response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions for motherhood and responds to Ju

The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face—social, economic, political, cu

Most mothers don't have time for long conversations. They want them, and crave them, but they are constantly interrupted by kids, partners, work and the day-to-