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About the Author
Jennifer L. Johnson is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Thorneloe University federated with Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her research and teaching include feminist geographical approaches to the study of social reproduction and global economies; gender, race and racism; and feminist pedagogies. She is co-editor of Feminist Issues: Gender, Race, and Class 6th edition with Nancy Mandell (Pearson Education, 2016). Krista Johnston is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada. Her teaching and research focus on the roles and responsibilities of non-Indigenous peoples in projects of decolonization, with a focus on gender justice and urban citizenship.
Reviews
"Maternal Geographies is an accessible collection that brings together a diverse set of arguments via engaging styles of presentations. The Editors position the contributions within an interdisciplinary backdrop through which authors detail the spatialities of mothering. Instead of the well-worn trope of mothers facing challenges, each of the authors foregrounds mothering as a process, bringing refreshingly neoteric angles to understanding what mothering is all about. Contributions provide personal accounts of sculpting spaces for conventionally understood as `out of place' mothering, offer novel readings of art forms that bring a sensitivity to the complexity of the lives of women who mother, and advance methodological queries into embodied research practices that extend well beyond the research topic. This reorientation away from the idealizations of mother and motherhood toward mothering as a process will no doubt affect the way researchers approach mothers and motherhood through the practices of mothering." - Professor Pamela Moss, University of Victoria
Book Information
ISBN 9781772582000
Author Jennifer L. Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Demeter Press
Publisher Demeter Press