Performing Maternities

Kate Aughterson is an independent scholar, who has taught in UK universities for the past 30 years and published in areas including feminist theory, early modern culture and contemporary women’s fiction.Jess Moriarty is principal lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Brighton, UK, where she is course leader on the Creative Writing MA and co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing.

• List of FiguresIntroduction – Kate Aughterson1. Maternal Performance: Relations and Embodiments – Lena Šimic and Emily Underwood-Lee2. Experiencing and Knowing from a Mother/Child ‘Us’ – Ariel Moy3. Still Mothering: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love through the Eyes of Bereaved Mothers – Abby Arnold-Patti4. Mothering in the Peripheries: An Autoethnographic Account of the Challenging Matrescence of a Neurodivergent Woman – Claire Robinson5. Tensions of Maternity – Steve Ryder and Diana Denton6. Remember Me? Creative Conversations with Clothes – Jenni Cresswell7. How to Tell a Tricky Story about Birth Trauma: Transforming My Lived Experience into a Mythical Epic – Michelle Hall and Teresa Izzard8. Rhetorical Uteri: A Comparative Visual Analysis of Next Nature Network’s ‘First Artificial Womb for Humans’ and Ani Liu’s The Surrogacy – Yvette Chairez9. Seeds from My Grandmother’s Womb – Suzi Bamblett10. Delivering across Geographies: How Faith, Age, Friends, and Space Carry Birthing – Noor Ali11. ‘These Nipples Are Wasted!’ – Chan-hyo Jeong12. Macomère Narratives: Mothering in Higher Education – Janice B. Fournillier13. Bitter-Sweet Embrace: Documentary Film of Artist-Clinician Sophia Xeros-Constantinides Presenting Her Postgraduate Fine Art Exhibition Exploring the Darker Side of Motherhood – Sophia Xeros-Constantinides14. Comadreando: Entangling the Web of Our Lives – Freyca Calderon-Berumen and Karla O’Donald15. Interrogating Constructions of Good/Bad Mothers through Popular Spanish Culture: The Case of Concha Piquer (1908–90) – Mercedes Carbayo-Abengózar16. Looking for Laura: The Generational Transmission of Sexuality – Valerie Walkerdine17. Maternal Bodies in the Garden: Transit Spaces – Ruchika Wason SinghNotes on Contributors