Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal through Politics, Home, and the Body

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Spaces of Motherhood....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
MotherSpace: Disciplining through the Material and Discursive....Pages 15-33
“Magdalene versus the Nation”: Ireland as a Space of Compulsory Motherhood in Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River....Pages 35-53
An Office of One’s Own: Stories of Power, Space, and Motherhood in the Swiss Academy....Pages 55-72
The Maternity Hospital: Blueprint for Redesigning Childbirth....Pages 73-86
The Birthplace....Pages 87-103
Closer to Home: The Domestic in the Discourses of Upper-Middle-Class Pregnancy....Pages 105-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme....Pages 115-147
Black Women and Motherhood....Pages 149-159
Integrating Home and Wage Workplace: Women’s Daily Lives in a Canadian Suburb....Pages 161-183
Locating Lesbian Parent Families....Pages 185-201
Like a Mother: Paid “Mother-work” Performed in Private Spaces....Pages 203-220
“You just have to make a conscious effort to keep snapping away I think”: A Case Study of Family Photos, Mothering, and Familial Space....Pages 221-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Uneasy Spaces: The Domestic Uncanny in Contemporary Installation Art....Pages 243-260
Winnicott’s Maternal Aesthetic: Absorption and Beholding in Potential Space....Pages 261-282
Pregnant Bodies as Public Spaces....Pages 283-305
Breeding Ambiguity: The Womb as Alien Space in the X-Files....Pages 307-322
Back Matter....Pages 323-335