Description: This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become overtly apparent or even unavoidable afterwards. Becoming a mother may also lead to a questioning of current feminist priorities and practices, and a recognition of the need for, or even demand for, a mother-centred mode of feminism. This anthology, separated into three sections ? ?Losing and Finding, ? ?Challenging and Critiquing, ? and, ?Connecting and Conversing? ? provides intersectionally sensitive and broad-ranging interdisciplinary insights into mothers? perceptions of, connection to, and realizations of, feminism. International contributors examine this complex topic through a wide variety of texts including personal and scholarly essays, creative non-fiction, letters and Q and A style discussion, poetry, art, and photograph
Review Quotes: "Coming Into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism is a compelling text that adds multidisciplinary thought to several areas, especially Mothering-Motherhood Studies. The book is distinguished not only by its scholarship, but also by its diverse chapters and impressive depth. Most importantly, it forges new pathways and gives readers a greater understanding of feminism. Readers should be prepared to add this book to their list and return to the text again and again." -- Dorsía Smith Silva, Ph.D., Full Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering and Co-Editor of Mothering, Community, and Friendship and Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization