LEADER 04077nam 22006015 450 001 9910746071203321 005 20251008163630.0 010 $a9783031393518 010 $a3031393511 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-39351-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30745832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30745832 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-39351-8 035 $a(CKB)28234559400041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928234559400041 100 $a20230915d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence /$fby Rachel Williamson 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 311 08$aPrint version: Williamson, Rachel 21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031393501 311 08$a3031393503 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: ?An Exquisite Suffering? -- 2. Contextualizing Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism -- 3. 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother -- 4. Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body -- 5. The Body in Extremis: Vocalizing Maternal Corporeality -- 6. Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience -- 7. ?Strange and Wild?: Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence. 330 $aMotherhood has long been depicted in reductive or limited terms. At once valorized and configured as the ultimate end-goal for socially condoned femininity, maternity is also highly mediated and scrutinized. This has resulted in a representational tradition that persists in imagining maternal subjects in rigid binary terms, pitting good mothers against bad. Largely in response to this repressive schema, recent years have marked the emergence of a diverse range of visual and literary texts about motherhood. While such texts vary in style, genre and form, this book argues that they are unified in their efforts to publicize embodied maternal experience and foreground maternal ambivalence, a concept that is best understood as a mother?s capacity to simultaneously love and hate her child. Although maternal ambivalence has become an increasingly popular topic of study with maternal scholars, its articulation within contemporary representations and narratives has yet to be adequately theorized and addressed, and this book aims to fill this gap. Rachel Williamson is a policy advisor and senior trainer at domestic violence specialist organization SHINE (Safer Homes in New Zealand Everyday), working with employers and government departments to recognize and respond appropriately to staff experiencing domestic violence. She obtained her PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her articles have appeared in Continuum, Labour and Industry and In Media Res, and she has two chapters in the edited collections Maternal Connections: When Daughter Becomes Mother and Maternal Regret: Resistances, Renunciations, and Reflections. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender,$x2662-9372 606 $aSex 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aGender identity in mass media 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aMedia and Gender 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aGender identity in mass media. 615 14$aGender Studies. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aMedia and Gender. 676 $a306.8743 700 $aWilliamson$b Rachel$01429648 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910746071203321 996 $a21st-Century Narratives of Maternal Ambivalence$93568708 997 $aUNINA