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Mothering Performance: Maternal Action

Mothering Performance: Maternal Action

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Acting & AuditioningGeneral ParentingTheater History

ISBN10: 1032138440
ISBN13: 9781032138442
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

This collection extends the concept and action of 'performance' and connects it to the idea of 'mothering' as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; it is situated in a specific place, and it is undertaken by specific bodies, marked by experience and context. The authors explore the potential of a maternal sensibility to move us towards maternal action that is explicitly political, ethical, and in relation to our others. Presented in three sections, Exchange, Practice, and Solidarity, the book includes international contributions from scholars and artists covering topics including ecology, migration, race, class, history, incarceration, mental health, domestic violence, intergenerational exchange, childcare, and peacebuilding. The collection gathers diverse maternal performance practices and methodologies which address aesthetics, dramaturgy, activism, pregnancy, everyday mothering, and menopause.

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