Binding: Paperback
Description: Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption surrogacy and egg donation and their silent partners the birth mothers surrogate mothers and egg donors who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach to life writing using hybrid form encompassing edited interview re - imagined scenes poetry personal essay and quotation collage this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies gender and women's studies life writing studies the sociology of reproduction creative non - fiction writing approaches oral history and ethnography studies.
Title: Another Mother Curating And Creating Voices Of Adoption Surrogacy And Egg Donation
Author(s): Everington Shanta (The Open University Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032268408
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 6/8/2023
Category: Adoption