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Like grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience both ordinary and transformative. You are prepared for the sleeplessness and wonder, the noise and the chaos, the pram in the hall. But the extent to which this new life can turn your inner world upside-down - nothing prepares you for that. In this frank, funny and fearless memoir, Marianne Levy writes with heart-wrenching honesty about love and loss, rage and pain, fear and joy. She breaks the silence around the emotional turmoil that having a child can unleash and asks why motherhood is at once so venerated and so undervalued -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Parenting today is virtually synonymous with worry. We want to ensure that our children are healthy, that they get a good education, and that they grow up to be able to cope with the challenges of modern life. In our anxiety, we are keenly aware of our inability to know what is best for our children. When should we toilet train? What is the best way to encourage a fussy child to eat? How should we protect our children from disease and injury? Before the nineteenth century, maternal instinct-a mother's \"natural know-how\"-was considered the only tool necessary for effective childrearing. Over the past two hundred years, however, science has entered the realm of motherhood in increasingly significant ways. InPerfect Motherhood,Rima D. Apple shows how the growing belief that mothers need to be savvy about the latest scientific directives has shifted the role of expert away from the mother and toward the professional establishment. Apple, however, argues that most women today are finding ways to negotiate among the abundance of scientific recommendations, their own knowledge, and the reality of their daily lives.

\"An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers. What does it mean to create, not in \"a room of one's own,\" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, who had to choose between her motherhood and herself; Ursula K. Le Guin, who found productive stability in family life; Audre Lorde, whose queer, polyamorous union allowed her to raise children on her own terms; and Alice Neel, who once, to finish a painting, was said to have left her baby on the fire escape of her New York apartment. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, The Baby on the Fire Escape illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives\"-- Provided by publisher.

According to Allen, motherhood and citizenship are terms that are closely linked and have been redefined over the past century due to changes in women's status, feminist movements, and political developments. Mother-child relationships were greatly affected by political decisions during the early 1900s, and the maternal role has been transformed over the years. To understand the dilemmas faced by women concerning motherhood and work, for example, Allen argues that the problem must be examined in terms of its demographic and political development through history. Allen highlights the feminist movements in Western Europe - primarily Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands, and explores the implications of the maternal role for women's aspirations to the rights of citizenship. Among the topics Allen explores the history of the maternal role, psychoanalysis and theories on the mother-child relationship, changes in family law from 1890-1914, the economic status of mothers, and reproductive responsibility.

Growing up in rural Ontario, Erin Zimmerman became fascinated with plants - an obsession that led to a life in academia as a professional botanist. But as her career choices narrowed in the face of failing institutions and subtle, but ubiquitous, sexism, Zimmerman began to doubt herself. Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science is a scientist's memoir, a glimpse into the ordinary life of someone in a fascinating field. This is a memoir about plants, about looking at the world with wonder, and about what it means to be a woman in academia - an environment that pushes out mothers and those with any outside responsibilities. Zimmerman delves into her experiences as a new mom, her decision to leave her position in post-graduate research, and how she found a new way to stay in the field she loves. She also explores botany as a \"dying science\" worth fighting for. While still an undergrad, Zimmerman's university started the process of closing the Botany Department, a sign of waning funding for her beloved science. Still, she argues for its continuation, not only because we have at least 100,000 plant species yet to be discovered, but because an understanding of botany is crucial in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss. Zimmerman is also a botanical illustrator and will provide 8 original illustrations for the book.

Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies and the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often competing ideologies and multiple practices. And by drawing attention to women's agency as wives, mothers and grandmothers within these new frameworks, Domestic Goddesses discusses the experiences of different age groups affected by these changes. Through a careful analysis of women's narratives, the domestic sphere is shown to represent the key site for the remaking of Indian middle-class citizens in a global world.

L'article analyse la représentation de la maternité et de la folie dans Comme une mère de Karine Reysset à travers les trajectoires d'Émilie et de Judith. Émilie, confrontée à un accouchement anonyme, oscille entre le rejet et l'acceptation de son rôle maternel, incarnant un parcours névrotique vers la séparation. Judith, marquée par un deuil impossible, sombre dans la psychose, tentant de combler son vide par une fusion délirante avec l'enfant d'une autre. S'appuyant sur Lacan et Kristeva, l'étude explore comment la maternité révèle un manque fondamental, tiraillé entre les pulsions sémiotiques et l'ordre symbolique. La folie surgit lorsque le langage échoue à structurer l'altérité, conduisant à l'abjection ou au délire. Émilie préserve son identité par la parole, tandis que Judith, privée de symbolisation, s'effondre dans un réel brut. La maternité apparaît comme une épreuve de l'altérité, entre fusion et séparation, où l'équilibre psychique dépend de la reconnaissance de l'autre. The article examines the portrayal of motherhood and madness in Karine Reysset’s Comme une mère through the trajectories of Émilie and Judith. Émilie, facing anonymous childbirth, navigates between rejection and acceptance of her maternal role, embodying a neurotic journey toward separation. Judith, haunted by an impossible mourning, descends into psychosis, attempting to fill her void through a delusional fusion with another’s child. Drawing on Lacan and Kristeva, the study explores how motherhood reveals a fundamental lack, caught between semiotic drives and the symbolic order. Madness emerges when language fails to structure alterity, leading to abjection or delirium. Émilie preserves her identity through speech, while Judith, devoid of symbolization, collapses into a raw real. Motherhood is depicted as a trial of alterity, balancing fusion and separation, where psychic equilibrium hinges on recognizing the other. El artículo analiza la representación de la maternidad y la locura en Comme une mère de Karine Reysset a través de las trayectorias de Émilie y Judith. Émilie, enfrentada a un parto anónimo, oscila entre el rechazo y la aceptación de su rol materno, encarnando un recorrido neurótico hacia la separación. Judith, marcada por un duelo imposible, cae en la psicosis, intentando llenar su vacío mediante una fusión delirante con el hijo de otra persona. Basándose en Lacan y Kristeva, el estudio explora cómo la maternidad revela una carencia fundamental, atrapada entre pulsiones semióticas y el orden simbólico. La locura surge cuando el lenguaje no logra estructurar la alteridad, conduciendo a la abyección o al delirio. Émilie preserva su identidad a través del habla, mientras que Judith, privada de simbolización, colapsa en un real crudo. La maternidad se presenta como una prueba de alteridad, equilibrando fusión y separación, donde el equilibrio psíquico depende del reconocimiento del otro.

A philosophical exploration of birth, maternity, and reproduction. Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Winner of the 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy The Gift of the Other brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women's reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author Lisa Guenther develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, Irigaray, and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity.

Finding joy and beauty in the face of suffering   Readers enter \"a stunted world,\" where landmarks--a river, a house, a woman's own body--have become unrecognizable in a place as distorted and dangerous as any of the old tales poet Molly Spencer remasters in this elegant, mournful collection.

This book explores the nature of parent-infant psychotherapies, therapies that are a major segment of the rapidly growing, sprawling field of infant mental health. It examines the different elements that make up the parent-infant clinical system.