Jennifer Case

We Are Animals

On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection of personal essays tackling social stigmas around mothering, childbirth, and feminism in the twenty-first century

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trinity University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781595343017
• ISBN-10: 1595343016
• Artikelnr.: 68986194

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Case teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas. She also serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org and is the supervising editor of Arkana. She is the author of Sawbill, and her work has appeared in Orion, the Sycamore Review, and Fourth River. She lives in central Arkansas.

Inhaltsangabe

We Are Animals ………………………………………………… 4
BabyCenter: An Essay on Place ………………………………… 19
On Contemplating a Second Child ……………………………… 34
Unintended……………………………………………………… 44
A Political Pregnancy …………………………………………… 49
Birth (Un)Medicalized: A Case Study……………………………. 65
A Cost Accounting of Birth …………..…………………………. 83
To Hatch Intimacy from Despair………………………………… 95
Birthwork in the Bible Belt……………………………………….. 110
On the Silence of Regret ………………………………………….. 129
On Breast Pumps and Bovines ……………………………………. 139
The Mother-Infant Dyad …………………………………………. 158
On Race and Motherhood in America……………………………. 176
Animals on the Eve of Extinction………………………………… 187
Additional Thoughts on Control…………………………………… 198
Message for the Animal Mother………………………………… 213