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The Literary Imagination of Alice Munro
By Tom Ue Back in 2008, in an article for The Underground UTSC’s Official Student Paper, I responded to a review of Canadian writer Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories that was published in The...
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Beyond the clinical: Maternal health and wellbeing
By Joan Garvan Our era is characterised by a ‘work-family clash’ and there is evidence that trends towards gender equity have stalled. In 2006, a multi-nation study by the European Commission...
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Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood The Photographers’ Gallery and The...
By Rebecca Baillie In the same way that the parent and child are distinct and separate whilst remaining undeniably connected, so too are the parallel shows curated by Susan Bright on photography and...
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Mother of Invention: A new collection of essays on mothering and feminist...
By Rachel O’Neill MaMSIE readers may be interested in a new collection of essays on the theme of mothering and feminist subjectivities. Edited by Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian, Mother of Invention...
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Artists who Mother
By Rose Gibbs According to Sheryl Sandberg, the woman responsible for turning around the fortune of Facebook (1), ‘the number one impediment to women succeeding in the work force is now in the home....
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The Business of Being Made
By Katie Gentile In her recent book Knock me up, knock me down, Kelly Oliver reminds us that until fairly recently, Hollywood made sure to keep pregnant celebrities out of sight. These days, you...
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Motherhood and a Scholarly Via Media
By Amy Young Motherhood is a hot topic in both popular and academic presses. Sheryl Sandburg’s Lean In, Brooke Shields’ Down Comes the Rain: My Journey through Postpartum Depression, Anne Lamott’s...
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Towards a “maternal commons”? Exploring the potential political resistance of...
By Sara De Benedictis On the 10th March 2014 artist Sheona Beaumont gave birth to her second child, Dylan, on the BAFTA winning Channel 4 primetime television show, One Born Every Minute. Beaumont...
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The egg, the womb, the head and the moon exhibition review
By Rebecca Baillie The strength of the recently concluded exhibition in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire – the egg, the womb, the head and the moon – was in its inclusivity and openness. To create a...
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Defining Social Mothering
By Sarah Sahagian The great maternal theorist Sara Ruddick argues that the practice of mothering “is to take upon oneself the responsibility of child care, making its work a...
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From heartache to happiness: the codes, conventions and clichés of the...
By Rebecca Feasey Introduction Infertility is a common experience among women within and beyond the UK, and this experience ‘is not usually discussed publicly, at least in detail’ (Striff, 2005: 189)....
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Love and Hate in Childbirth
By Rosalind Howell In December the NICE guidelines were updated to reflect changing cultural attitudes to pregnancy and birth. They acknowledge that for women, birth is a ‘significant and emotionally...
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Maternal Readings of Pregnancy and Childbirth on the Small Screen
By Rebecca Feasey Introduction Extant literature on ‘reality’ programmes such as A Baby Story (1998), Maternity Ward (2001) and One Born Every Minute (2010- ) make reference to the various ways in...
View ArticleCentralization of Obstetric Units: (Austerity) Challenges to Maternity Care-...
Last week, the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Dr David Richmond made quite a controversial proposal, one that would create a “public and political furore”, in his...
View Article10.000 Refugee Children Missing: Historical Coincidences and Historical...
In the Greek language, the word coincidence shares the same root with the word symptom; which creates a paradox. This sharing implies that when a coincidence (σύμπτωση) is repeated, it then becomes a...
View ArticleAffordable Mothering and Respectability- by Agata Lisiak
The low total fertility rate in Poland (1.3) has repeatedly been juxtaposed, in Polish and British media alike (often in an alarmed tone), with the apparently much higher (2.13) total fertility rate of...
View ArticleOn the Equality and Childbirth – by Ozan Kamiloglu
I just had a child. What a weird use this is of the verb “have”. There hasn’t been any physical connection between me and the child until now. My partner changed with the child, carried her, fed her,...
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Meet the Mother House: a creative space for mothers artists
Mother House is a pilot initiative from Procreate Project in partnership with Desperate Artwives. It is a dedicated creative space for London-based artists who are mothers with a co-produced and...
View ArticleA maternal haunting – By Anna Johnson
I began writing, for no clear purpose but from a need of some sort. And also, I think, from some notion that I could perhaps ‘make something’ of the unexpected, powerful strangeness of this experience...
View ArticleConceiving Histories – a project exploring the history of pre-pregnancy.
If you begin typing ‘Am I …’ into a google search box, ‘Am I pregnant?’ is the first offered suggestion, just ahead of ‘Am I registered to vote?’ – a vestige from the Brexit referendum, ‘Am I...
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