Mothering performance : maternal action
/ edited by Lena Šimić and Emily Underwood-Lee
- 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations
- Routledge advances in theatre & performance studies .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : maternal action as exchange, practice, and solidarity / Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee Part 1. Exchange Thinking back through our mothers : the editors in conversation / Alice Entwistle, Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee Conversations with mother artists on the dynamics of support in India / Ruchika Wason Singh, Shobha Broota, Pooja Iranna Homebody / Eve Dent, Zoë Gingell Siôl Fagu : a consideration in four stories / Christine Watkins Mom, me, and the maternal at work / Roiyah Saltus, Solange Saltus There are other worlds : maternal knowledge beyond borders / Elena Marchevska Part 2. Practice Dramaturgies of support and interruption in the process of wonderwoman : the naked truth by notnow collective / Kristina Gavran Gravida, the weight and wait of pregnancy to mothering transformation : a performance exploring traumatic memory and the energy of creation / Carrie Westwater, Aleksandra Nikolajev Jones Motherswitch / Tracy Breathnach Did I request thee, maker, from my minced meat to mould me infant? : or manifesto for a maternal aesth-ethics, proposal for “provocation and practice” / Freya Verlander Maternal poetics of care in plastic spaces / Prophecy Sun Claiming spaces : aprons of power – places of power performances / Rachel Fallon Part 3. Solidarity Who does she think she is? Kate Middleton?! : leaky escapes in un-classy maternal performance / Jodie Hawkes Physical and symbolic loss : composite monologues of women parenting while incarcerated / Helena D. Lewis Performing and transforming the maternal : a reflexive inquiry using digital storytelling for mutual learning / Leah Salter Weaving enfleshed citizenship (m)otherwise / Sara C. Motta Dispatches from the front : midwifery in a pandemic / Laura Godfrey-Isaacs Maternal performance as peacebuilding / Jennifer Verson Conclusion : on sustaining mothering performance / Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee