Tag: Mothering

Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium


Free Download Stavroula Constantinou, "Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 1032208759 | 2023 | 272 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
This volume offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural examination of the lactating woman – biological mother and othermother – in antiquity and early Byzantium. Adopting methodologies and knowledge deriving from a variety of disciplines, the volume’s contributors investigate the close interrelationship between a woman and her lactating breasts, as well as the social, ideological, theological, and medical meanings and uses of motherhood, childbirth, and breastfeeding, along with their visual and literary representations.

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Academic Mothering Fabulating Futures for Higher Education


Free Download Kelly W. Guyotte, "Academic Mothering: Fabulating Futures for Higher Education"
English | ISBN: 9004547452 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 43 MB
This book is inspired by academic mothering before and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring diverse enactments of mothering, the authors critique academia’s systemic failures, in the pandemic and beyond, fabulating futures in which mothering is valued and supported.

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