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The maternal in creative work : intergenerational discussions on motherhood and art

Marchevska, Elena, 1978- editor, Walkerdine, Valerie, editor

Overview

\"The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation, and creativity. This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades, and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st Centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the 'unfit mother' and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering. The Maternal in Creative Work will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies, and art theory, and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Women's studies. / Motherhood and the arts. / Creative ability in women.
• ISBN: 9780815381693, 0815381697

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ1180.M38 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE