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MOTHERING A BODIED CURRICULUM EMPLACEMENT, DESIRE, AFFECT Edited by Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman This collection of essays considers how notions of embodiment and mothering are related to curriculum theory and practices in education. Advancing a new understanding of the maternal body, it argues for a ‘bodied curriculum’ that attends to the relational, social, and ethical im- plications of ‘being-with’ other bodies differently, and to the different knowledges such bodily encounters produce. The contributors to this volume argue that the prevailing silence about the maternal body in educational scholarship reinforces the binary split between domestic and public spaces, family life and work, one’s own children and others’ children, and women’s roles as ‘mothers’ or ‘oth- ers.’ Providing an interdisciplinary perspective in which postmodern ideas about the body interact with those of learning and teaching, Moth- ering a Bodied Curriculum brings theory and practice together into an ever-evolving conversation. Stephanie Springgay is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Debra Freedman is an instructor in the Department of Family Rela- tions and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. This page intentionally left blank EDITED BY STEPHANIE SPRINGGAY AND DEBRA FREEDMAN Mothering a Bodied Curriculum Emplacement, Desire, Affect UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press 2012 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4426-4374-1 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4426-1227-3 (paper) Printed on acid-free, 100% post-consumer recycled paper with vegetable- based inks. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Mothering a bodied curriculum : emplacement, desire, affect/edited by Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4426-4374-1 (bound). ISBN 978-1-4426-1227-3 (pbk.) 1. Motherhood. 2. Motherhood–Social aspects. 3. Feminist theory. 4. Critical pedagogy. I. Springgay, Stephanie II. Freedman, Debra HQ759.M883 2012 306.874'3 C2011-907278-5 This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund. For Our Mothers This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments x i Introduction: M/othering and a Minor Methodology 3 stephanie springgay and debra freedman PART 1 EMPLACEMENT 1 Consuming M/otherhood: Pedagogical Regimes of Truth in Parental Consumerism 19 jake burdick and jonel thaller 2 Pregnant Pedagogy 34 julie garlen maudlin 3 M/othering Midst Tensioned Spaces: Towards Theorizing Home Schooling as a Bodied Curriculum 51 diane watt 4 The Mindful Materfessor: M/othering Bodies of Difference in Education 70 leah fowler 5 Relational Teaching and Mothers with Disabilities: Bridging the Public/Private, Dependency/Nurturance Divides 88 claudia malacrida viii Contents 6 E-Mail from a Digital Daddy: A Conversation with My (Future) Child in an Age of Digital (Communication) Technology 103 b. stephen carpenter ii 7 Harriet’s House: Mothering Other People’s Children 124 tara goldstein PART 2 DESIRE 8 Living as/through Revolt: Judaism, Circumcision, and M/othering 145 debra freedman 9 Navigating M/other-Son Plots as a Migrant Act: Autobiography, Currere, and Gender 160 nicholas ng-a-fook 10 Where Desire Endures: Intimacy and Mothering a Bodied Curriculum 186 ugena whitlock 11 (Lesbian) M/otherhood as Contradiction: Love, Sexuality, and Other (Imagined) Wonders 207 kathleen gallagher with caroline fusco 12 M/othering Multiculturalism: Adoption, Diversity, and Nomadic Subjects 221 jennifer eisenhauer 13 Writing in the Shadows Cast by Moonlight 236 heather pinedo-burns PART 3 AFFECT 14 Tasting the Mother as Sensational Pedagogy 255 stephanie springgay Contents ix 15 Breastfeeding Mothers and Lovers: An Ebbing and Flowing Curriculum of the Fluid Embrace 270 rebecca lloyd 16 The Breastfeeding Curriculum: Stories of Queer, Female, Unruly Learning 294 karleen pendleton jiménez 17 Multiple Stories: Alternate Constructions of M/othering in the Context of Family Violence 308 saskia stille 18 First Reading: Troubling Maternity 320 aparna mishra tarc PART 4 CURRICULAR RESPONSE 19 M/othering as Un(der)studied in Curriculum Studies: An Epilogue 341 erik malewski Contributors 361
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