Mothering a Bodied Curriculum: Emplacement, Desire, Affect

380 Pages·2012·1.098 MB·English

by  Stephanie Springgay, Debra Freedman

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.
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EDITED BY STEPHANIE SPRINGGAY
AND DEBRA FREEDMAN
Mothering a Bodied
Curriculum
Emplacement, Desire, Affect
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
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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
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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