Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Post-Partum

This special issue on “Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Post-Partum” features 13 articles, eleven book reviews and a poetry folio featuring the work of Adrianne Kalfopoulou. Articles include:

• Post-Partum Support For New Mothers

• Birth Stories on Mommyblogs

• Trauma and Mothering

• Placental Thinking

• Childbirth: From Curse to Creation

and many more…

Communication, Relationships, and Priorities: Parental and Provider Experiences of Infant Feeding Support on the Northeast Avalon by Christina Doonan, Julia Temple Newhook, Leigh Anne Allwood-Newhook, Anne Drover, Laurie Twells, and Kevin Chan 11

 

“Most Often People Would Tell Me I Was Crazy”: Defending against Deviance Ascribed to Alternative Birth Choices by Melanie Bayly and Pamela Downe 25

 

Pregnancy and Childbirth: Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) and Support for New Mothers by Melissa Sawers and Gina Wong 45

 

Marijoy Tells Her Story While Sister Hildegard Sings Encouragement by Josephine L. Savarese  61

 

“Music and Mensis” or the Deconstruction of the Pregnancy and Childbirth Metaphor in Ntozakae Shange’s “oh—i’m 10 months pregnant” by Laura Major 63

 

Cyber Labour: Birth Stories on Mommyblogs as Narrative Gateways into Maternal Thinking  by Astrid Joutseno 75

 

Reproduction on Display: Black Maternal Mortality and the Newest Case for National Action by Haile Eshe Cole 89

 

Curse to Co-creation: Religious Models of Labour Painby Marianne Delaporte 103

 

Placental Thinking for Mother-Centred Birth by Nané Jordan 115

 

Lost and Found by Bridget Boland 127

 

Trauma and Mothering: An Autoethnography by Noreen Anne Cauley 135

 

“Oh, Get Over It. I Do This Every Day”: How Ignoring the Specialness of Childbirth Contributes to Experiences of Emotional Distress by Christiana MacDougall 149

 

How Did You Do It? Shared Experiences of Birth Activism on the Issue of Obstetric Violence: Interview with Ibone Olza by Elena Skoko 165

The Mother-Daughter Puzzle: A New Generational Understanding of the Mother-Daughter Relationship Reviewed by Gillian M.e. Alban 203

 

Mothering by Degrees: Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education Reviewed by Victoria Bailey 205

 

Everyday World-making: Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering Reviewed by Rachel Epp Buller 207

 

Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family Reviewed by Kimberly Crosby-Hillier 209

 

Finding the Plot: A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature Reviewed by Emma Dalton 211

 

Mothers and Daughters Reviewed by Patricia Drew 212

 

Academic Mothers in the Developing World: Stories from India, Brazil and South Africa Reviewed by Talia Esnard 215

 

Liberating Motherhood: Birthing the Purplestockings Movement Reviewed by Raven Haymond 217

 

Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference: Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines Reviewed by Naomi M. Mcpherson 219

 

Contract Children: Questioning Surrogacy Reviewed by Danielle Roth-Johnson 221

 

CONTENTS Reviewed by Dorsía Smith Silva 223

 

Contributor Notes 225

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    Journal Volume #: 9.2

    Page Count: 245

    Publication Date: Fall/Winter 2018


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