Maternal Tug

Sarah LaChance Adams is associate professor of philosophy at University of Wisconsin Superior. She is author of Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a “Good” Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence. She is co-editor of Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering; and New Philosophies of Sex and Love: Thinking through Desire. She lives with her family in Duluth, Minnesota. Tanya Cassidy is a Fulbright-HRB (Irish Health Research Board) Health Impact scholar, an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Award (MSCA) fellow, a Cochrane Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Recently she took up a lectureship in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Dublin City University (DCU). Susan Hogan is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Derby and a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health of the University of Nottingham. She has written extensively on women’s transition to motherhood and experience of psychiatry. Her most recent funded research is The Birth Project (AHRC grant ref. AH/K003364/1).