Pandemic Motherhood explores how various artistic practices and processes have been instrumental in processing, sharing, and learning about the intersectional epidemics unique to mothers living in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Section 1
Pandemic Matrescence: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Birth, and Postpartum Experiences
Chapter 1. Performance + pedagogy + pregnancy: a COVID-19 pandemic experience
Chapter 2. Representations of science related to reproduction on stage
Chapter 3. dear emi
Chapter 4. Storytelling, community, and the postpartum experience during COVID-19: affirming the humanity of mothers through trauma-informed facilitation
Chapter 5. My blessingway Project: a story of birthing a mother and (her child) hope
Chapter 6. Breastfeeding stories
Chapter 7. A choreographic motherhood: the (re)birth of self in creative process and practice
Section 2
In the Weeds: A Mother's Work is Never Done. Mothering Children, Teenagers, and Adults through a Pandemic and Beyond
Chapter 8. My mom worked during the entire pandemic and all I got was this stupid quarantine
Chapter 9. Space for our children
Chapter 10. Artistry and authority
Chapter 11. Dance as legacy: passing on an artistic practice to my daughters
Chapter 12. Pregnancy and motherhood in dance: a UK and USA comparison
Chapter 13. Digital media's bearing on maternal well-being: an ethnographic case study
Chapter 14. Intimacy direction and mothers: Is the light at the end of the tunnel still there?
Section 3
Performances of motherhood: art making, ideation, processes, outcomes, and participation through the lens of mothering during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chapter 15. Pandemic Mama: devised performance for community impact
Chapter 16. Pivots and pianos: choreographing through the COVID-19 pandemic with a 5th grader
Chapter 17. Performing a "real" family: finalizing an adoption amid a pandemic
Chapter 18. Venus in quarantine
Chapter 19. BIRTH!: a dance documentary exploring autonomy, trauma, and triumph
Chapter 20. Famalao'an/Babae: socially engaged art, feminist pedagogy, and shifting women's storytelling with CHamoru and Filipino students through zine-making in Guåhan
Chapter 21. "Our children": Sarah Sudhoff's multidisciplinary artivism in motherhood
Chapter 22. Mama's move: embodied storytelling
Chapter 23. Life as a mother artist: loving and grieving through dance
Conclusion