Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief
This special issue on “Mothering, Bereavement, Loss and Grief” features 23 articles, 6 book reviews, 6 poems and a special poetry folio featuring the work of Katherine Smith. Articles include: • ”Love and Loss, Joy and Pain, Birth and Death” • ”Learning how to Die: Lessons from my Son” • ”Miscarriage, Memory, and Mourning” • ”Life at the Cemetery” • ”Maternal Grief: Creating an Environment for Dialogue” • ”Memories of Post Natal Depression” • ”Grieving the Loss of Foster Children when they Leave” • ”Rediscovering Maternal Passion in the Photographic Portrait” • ”The Disenfranchised Grief of Women who are ‘Contingently Childless’” • ”Secrets of an ‘Illegitimate Mom’” And many more!
Learning How to Die: Lessons from My Son
by Suzanne B. Hanser
Maternal Grief: Creating an Environment for Dialogue
by Deborah Davidson and Helena Stahls
Life at the Cemetery
by Sharon Lang
Episodes on High F
by Paula Ressler
“I Am Still a Mother”: A Hermeneutic Inquiry into Bereaved Motherhood
by Deb Bennett
What I Hold and What I Give Away: Miscarriage, Memory, and Mourning
by Roxanne Harde
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by Pattie McCarthy
Stigma, Belonging and Mothering: An Outsider’s Understanding of Disability
by Jessica Jennrich 64
Losing The “Normal” Child: Ramifications for Middle-Class Mothers
by Ara A. Francis
Living and Grieving Beside Judith
by Sara Puotinen
Homegoing
by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
In the Valley of the Shadow
by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Love and Loss, Joy and Pain, Birth and Death
by Robin G. Isserles
I Thought the Bones Would Do: Mourning Postpartum Suicide Through Collage Renovations
by Christina Foisy
Dear Hours
by Shara McCallum
My Mother’s Chicken Soup: Recipe for Perspective
by Rosie Rosenzweig
Memories of Post Natal Depression
by Sally Raspin
Secrets of an “Illegitimate Mom”
by Lee Murray
An Adoptive Mother’s Reflections on Mothering and Grief: Another Voice from Inside the Adoption Triad
by Kerri S. Kearney and Lucy E. Bailey
Temporary Mothering: Grieving the Loss of Foster Children When They Leave
by Delores Mullings
Making Sense of Loss: the Disenfranchised Grief of Women Who Are “Contingently Childless”
by Lois Tonkin
Rediscovering Maternal Passion in the Photographic Portrait
by Toni Wilkinson
Death and Rebirth: Healing with the Eleusinian Mysteries of Ancient Greece
by Margaret Lynn Mitchell
Road to Radiation
by Julia Lisella
Going Lightly Slowly
by Julia Lisella
Grieving Conceptions: Making Motherhood in the Wake of Infertility in Ireland
by Jill Allison
Auto de Resistência: The Collective Action of Women Relatives of Victims of Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro
by Tatiana Moura, Rita Santos and Bárbara Soares
A Gold Star for Grieving: Cindy Sheehan, Military Families Speak Out, and Gold Star Families Speak Out
by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Reflection on Loss as a M/Other and a Feminist Sociologist
by Gayle Letherbyq
FOLIO
Literary Editor’s Notes
Jane Satterfield
Why I Am a Realist
by Katherine Smith
Woman Alone on the Mountain
by Katherine Smith
Border
by Katherine Smith
History
by Katherine Smith
Miracle I
by Katherine Smith
Miracle II
by Katherine Smith
Modesty
by Katherine Smith
Tangerine
by Katherine Smith
Demeter
by Katherine Smith
Self-Help
by Katherine Smith
The Question of David: A Disabled Mother’s Journey Through Adoption, Family and Life reviewed by Doreen Gur
Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering
reviewed by Ferzana Chase
Mothers and Blogging: The Radical Act of the MommyBlog
reviewed by Kryn Freehling-Burton
Mother Knows Best: Talking Back to the “Experts”
reviewed Susan Logsdon-Conradsen
Mothering Canada: Interdisciplinary Voices
reviewed by Serena Patterson
Blood Mother and The King: Poems
reviewed by Leah Souffrant
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