Book chapter
Becoming-with as Becoming-Maternal—Writing with Our Children and Companion Species: A Poetic and Visual Autoethnographic Portrayal of Mothering Assemblages
(Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe, pp.205-247
Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education, Palgrave Macmillan
2020
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Abstract
This chapter explores two positionings of motherhood in the relentless academic machine, foregrounding the perspectives of the children’s experience of mothering in the context of their careers. It is a dialogue with, through and between two academic mothers and their children, aged 28, 26, 10 and 6. The tensions in the public and private lives of mothers in the academy are portrayed in this chapter, tilted to include the experiences of their children, as an autoethnographic and arts-based portrayal of each mother-child-companion species assemblage. This chapter is thus grounded in the feminine, in Dadirri or deep listening, in the witnessing of the unfoldings of womanhood, as a construct and as a lived experience of growth, development and maturity.
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- Title
- Becoming-with as Becoming-Maternal—Writing with Our Children and Companion Species: A Poetic and Visual Autoethnographic Portrayal of Mothering Assemblages
- Creators
- Alexandra Lasczik - Southern Cross UniversityAmy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles - Southern Cross UniversityBronte CutcherRemy CutcherLily Cutter-MackenzieFinley Cutter-Knowles
- Contributors
- Linda Henderson (Editor of compilation) - Monash UniversityAlison L Black (Editor of compilation) - University of the Sunshine CoastSusanne Garvis (Editor of compilation) - University of Gothenburg
- Publication Details
- (Re)birthing the Feminine in Academe, pp.205-247
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; Cham, Switzerland
- Identifiers
- 991012869800002368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter