Mothering performance : maternal action /

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Edition:First Edition.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2023.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13553221
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Other authors / contributors:Simic, Lena, editor.
Underwood-Lee, Emily, editor.
ISBN:9781003231073
1003231071
9781000785128
1000785122
9781000785166
1000785165
9781032138046
9781032138442
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lena Šimić is a Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University. Emily Underwood-Lee is Professor of Performance Studies at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling at the University of South Wales.
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Summary:"Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection extends the concept and action of 'performance' and connects it to the idea of 'mothering' as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; it is situated in a specific place, and it is undertaken by specific bodies, marked by experience and context. The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. Presented in three sections, Exchange, Practice, and Solidarity, the book includes international contributions from scholars and artists covering topics including ecology, migration, race, class, history, incarceration, mental health, domestic violence, intergenerational exchange, childcare, and peacebuilding. The collection gathers diverse maternal performance practices and methodologies which address aesthetics, dramaturgy, activism, pregnancy, everyday mothering, and menopause. The book is a great read for artists, maternal health and care professionals, and scholars. Researchers with an interest in feminist performance and motherhood, within the disciplines of performance studies, maternal studies, and women's studies, and all those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of maternal experience, will find much of interest"--
Other form:Print version: Mothering performance First Edition. New York : Routledge, 2023 9781032138046
Standard no.:10.4324/9781003231073