Motherlines

This special issue on “Motherlines” features sixteen articles, four book reviews, and a poetry folio featuring the work of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley. Articles include:

  • Empowering mothers and daughters through matroreform and feminist motherlines

  • Motherhood studies and feminist theory: elisions and intersections

  • Ancestral feminist healers in the origins of medicine

  • Creating a feminist motherline for mother-daughter connection and

empowerment

  • Progressive Judaism and the Bar Mitzvah

  • Re-imaginings: a mother’s remembrance of her murdered daughter

  • Mothering in the aftermath of forced marriage and wartime rape

  • A new understanding of maternal self-care during family crisis

  • Performing femininity at the intersections of motherhood, womanhood, and the academy

And many more…

Empowering Mothers and Daughters through
Matroreform and Feminist Motherlines
by Fiona Joy Green

The Motherlines of Asclepius: Ancestral Female
Healers in the Origins of Medicine
by Jessica Spring Weappa

In Search of the Goddess: Creating a Feminist Motherline for Mother-Daughter Connection and Empowerment
by Andrea O’Reilly

Progressive Judaism and the Bar Mitzvah: A Rites of Passage Ritual That Repositions the Mother in Her Sons’ Lives
by Sarah Epstein

The Mother Becomes Time: Exploring Altered
Temporality in Contemporary Motherhood
by Mariana Thomas

Tanka Series: Mother and Daughter Estrangement
by Joanne L. DeTore

Being a “Woman Woman”: Performing Femininity at the Intersections of Motherhood, Womanhood, and the Academy
by Kelsey Marr

Francine Krause: Reconnecting Women to the Motherlines through the Practice of Pregnancy Belly Masking
by Bianca Williams

Toward a New Understanding of Maternal Self-Care during Family Crisis: Initiating a Shared Legacy of Strength and Hope
by Therese M. Madden

Grandmothering in Remission
by Michelle Hughes Miller

Amneh: My Grandmother and My Feminist Inspiration
by Rola (Hamed) Abu Zeid-O’Neill

Mother Lode: Memories of My Mother Outlaw(s)
by Linn Baran

Re-Imaginings: A Mother’s Remembrance of her Murdered Daughter
by Josephine L. Savarese

Mothering in the Aftermath of Forced Marriage and Wartime Rape: The Complexities of Motherhood in Postwar Northern Uganda
by Myriam Denov, Amber Green, Atim Angela Lakor, and
Janet Arach

Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory: Elisions and Intersections
by Tatjana Takševa 177 A Hidden Garden
by Rachel Epp Buller

Folio

Editor’s Note
by Jane Satterfield

Coming Home
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

After the Memorial
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

After So Long, We No Longer Send Photos
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
You Wouldn’t Let Me Adopt a Dog
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

I Am the Mother of Children
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Book Reviews
The Pregnancy ≠ Childbearing Project: A Phenomenology of Miscarriage reviewed by Daniela Jauk

The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives
reviewed by Kristin Marsh

Muslim Mothering: Global Histories, Theories, and Practices
reviewed by Danielle Roth-Johnson

Mothering in Marginalized Contexts: Narratives of Women Who Mother in and through Domestic Violence.
reviewed by Diane L. Shoos

Contributor Notes

  • Price: $22.00

    Journal Volume #: 9.1

    Publication Date: Spring/Summer 2018


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