Mothering and literacies
By: edited by Amanda Richey and Linda Shuford Evans
Publisher: Demeter Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bradford, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781927335147
Subjects: Motherhood; Mothers; Education; Mother and child; Literacy; Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Literacies of pregnancy, birthing, and adoption.  High-risk pregnancy / Miriamne Krummel ; Loving mothers: international Guatemalan adoption and digital literacies / Laura Newhart ; 'We can get old or we can get dead': Celebrating 15 years of the Midwifery Coalition of Nova Scotia's Newsletter / Erin Hemmens; title: II. Literacies and schooling. Advising for inequity: literacy advice to mothers / Suzanne Smythe ; Reclaiming literacy: A kindergartner teaches her mom to read / Jill Bryant ; 'You are your child's first teacher': The construction of maternal subjectivity in family literacy programs / Stacey Crooks; title: III. Mothering and visual literacies. Social representations of motherhood through the practice of art journaling / Jessica Smartt Gullion and Ariel Cooksey ; Visual literacies of mothering / Rachel Epp Buller; title: IV. Mothering and literacies in cross-cultural contexts. 'My girls are going to make it in the future': Intertwined discourses of mothering, literacy, and desire / Blaire Toso ; From traditional to transmedia storytelling: Constructing and deconstructing motherhood across cultural contexts / Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo ; Rethinking literacy research/training with marginalized Mujeres / Cinthya Saavedra ; Literacy and motherhood abroad: The case of Japanese overseas mothers / Masako Kato; title: V. Public discourses and literacies of motherhood. Mothers-For-Natural-Hair: The Afro-Cyberella's social media guide to Afrocentric hair / Lauren Cross ; Hidebound prohibitions and electronic literacies: Separate spheres ideology and the surveillance of Mommyblogs / Elizabeth Howells ; King Solomon's semiotic chains/inner division and the literacy of motherhood / Teresa Winterhalter ; 'What's a Mom to do?': Negotiating public health literacies through the traffic between motherhood and mothering in school-based HPV vaccination programming / Michelle Wyndham-West.