Mothering in the African diaspora
Subtitle: Association for Research on Mothering
By: founding editor and editor-in-chief, Andrea O'Reilly
Contributors: Atkinson College; York University (Toronto, Ont.); Association for Research on Mothering
Series: Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering -- v. 2, no. 2
Publisher: York University
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Motherhood; Mothers
Other titles: African diaspora, mothering in the
Notes: 'A York University publication."

Is the issue of "Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, v. 2 no. 2, Fall/Winter 2000."

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Situated at Atkinson College, York University.
Table of contents: title: Drawing strength from our mothers: tapping the roots of Black women's history / Cassie Premo Steele; title: A mother's embrace / Gail McCabe; title: Black women's mothering in a historical and contemporary perspective: understanding the past, forging the future / Erica Lawson; title: Oppressive nascence, the nascence of oppression / Marybeth White; title: developmental mothering in an African Aemrican community: from grandmothers to new mothers again/ Priscilla Gibson; title: Return to the [M]Other to heal the self: identity, selfhood and community in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Allison Mackey; title: "You'll become a lioness": African-American women talk about mothering / Trudelle Thomas; title: "she who learns teaches": Othermothering in the Academy / Canadace Bernard, Wanda Thomas Bernard, Chioma Epko, Josephine Enang, Bertlyn Joseph, and Njoki Wane; title: Birthday poem for Rachel / Rishma Dunlop; title: Community mothering: the relationship between mothering and the community work of black women / Arlene E. Edwards; title: Stories from Boundary Bay / Rishma Dunlop; title: Reflections on the mutuality of mothering: women, children, and othermothering / Njoki Nathani Wane; title: the art of thumbsucking / Laurie Kruk; title: Nothing to write home about: Caribbean Canadian daughters, mothers, and migration / Karen Flynn and Cindy-Lou Henwood; title: Resistance and surrender: mothering young, black and feminist / Crystal'Aisha PerrymanMark; title: First birds / Laurie Kruk; title: Mothering as motive and mechanism: women's contributions to a Tswana Diaspora in Colonial South Africa / Camilla Cockerton; title: Ibuz vs. Lagos: the feminist and traditional Buchi Emecheta / Nicole Willey; title: Motherhood-a Joy? The status of mothers of African descent in the literature and lore of Africa and the African Diaspora / Lena Ampadu; title: Policing our daughters' bodies: mothering in African literature / Venetria K. Patton; title: Binding the narrative thread; storytelling and the Mother-daughter relationship in Edwige Dandicat's "Breath, eyes, memory " / Nancy F. Gerber; title: Reading mobility, motherhood and domesticity in four African American women's texts / Jennifer Harris; title: Mothers in the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston / Brigitte H. Bechtold; title: Spirit wisdom / Joyce MacINtyre; title: Black girls / Black women-centred texts and black teachers as othermothers / Dolana Mogadime.; title: Book reviews. The joys of motherhood / reviewed by Merryl Hammond; title: "When we chose Canada": a mother and daughter share stories that shaped their lives in their new homeland / reviewed by Laura Thomas; title: Immigrant mothers: narratives of race and maternity 1890-1925 / reviewed by Jennifer Harris; title: Mothering teens: understanding the adolescent years / reviewed by Ruthe Thompson; title: Weaving work and motherhood / reviewed by Leigh M. O'Brien; title: In defense of single-parent families / reviewed by Robin Edward Gearing; title: Mother nature: a history of mothers, infants, and natural selection / reviewed by Anna Beauchamp; title: Childhood in American / reviewed by Sarah V. Young; title: Wonderful ways to be a stepparent / reviewed by Laurie Kruk; title: lesbian step families: an ethnography of love / reviewed by Dawn L. Comeau; title: Our families, our values: snapshots of queer kinship / reviewed by Niceole Willey; title: Thinking about the baby: gender and transitions in parenthood / reviewed by Wendy Faith; title: In her Mother's house: the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing / reviewed by Andrea Riesh Toepell; title: Women as wombs: reproductive technologies and the battle over women's freedom; title: reviewed by Emily Jeremiah.