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This is a wonderful and insightful collection of stories and reflections of mothers on the connection with their own mother after becoming a mother themselves. The chapters are primarily autobiographical and are told through a range of lens, be it a graphic chapter or the more literary. An author outlines Anishinaabeg ceremonial practices that honour and represent maternal connections, and others demonstrate how art and craft can both assist in working through and carry forward maternal stories. Two further pieces use a combination of literary critique, feminist theory, and post-Freudian psychoanalysis to interpret varied texts and another highlights findings from a series of interviews with women reflecting on the attributes and practices they will carry forward or discard from their experience of being mothered.

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Adrienne Rich famously noted, ? we are none of us either mother or daughter: to our amazement, confusion and greater complexity we are both?. Maternal Connections: daughter to mother reclaims the right to acknowledge both the connection and the longing, the trauma and the creativity, the pride and the disappointment in the mother-daughter-mother relational matrix; the ties that bind and the shackles we would wish to shake off. With chapters that include innovative uses of graphics and poetry, the reinstatement, two generations on, of a maternal craft practice as art, and exploration into the work of Elena Ferrante, the book privileges a blend of theory and personal experience that highlights how we think best when we work from the inside out as well as the outside in. -- Ros Howell, psychodynamic counsellor, movement psychotherapist, DBT therapist and writer. This is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of mother-daughter connections. Moving between prose, poetry, and graphical representations, the contributors collectively explore the grief, admiration, love, conflict, connection and disconnection that infuses relationships between mothers and daughters. Importantly, many of the authors consider the complexity of inhabiting both mother and daughter roles, and how relationships and identities change (and are re-examined) over the life course. From raw and vulnerable personal narratives to socio-psychological, political and literary analysis, this collection takes the reader on a thought-provoking emotional and intellectual journey. -- Dr Leah Williams Veazey, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney; author of Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age

Adrienne Rich famously noted, 'we are none of us either mother or daughter: to our amazement, confusion and greater complexity we are both.' Maternal Connections: daughter to mother reclaims the right to acknowledge both the connection and the longing, the trauma and the creativity, the pride and the disappointment in the mother-daughter-mother relational matrix; the ties that bind and the shackles we would wish to shake off. With chapters that include innovative uses of graphics and poetry, the reinstatement, two generations on, of a maternal craft practice as art, and exploration into the work of Elena Ferrante, the book privileges a blend of theory and personal experience that highlights how we think best when we work from the inside out as well as the outside in. --Ros Howell, psychodynamic counsellor, movement psychotherapist, DBT therapist and writer This is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of mother-daughter connections. Moving between prose, poetry, and graphical representations, the contributors collectively explore the grief, admiration, love, conflict, connection and disconnection that infuses relationships between mothers and daughters. Importantly, many of the authors consider the complexity of inhabiting both mother and daughter roles, and how relationships and identities change (and are re-examined) over the life course. From raw and vulnerable personal narratives to socio-psychological, political and literary analysis, this collection takes the reader on a thought-provoking emotional and intellectual journey. --Dr. Leah Williams Veazey, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney; author of Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age

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Kandee Kosior is a children's programming and outreach librarian. She has a Master of Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University. Kandee's research interests include feminist mothering, mothers and daughters, and mothers and sons. She is the co-editor of the Demeter Press publication titled Feminist Parenting. She treasures the 30 years she spent with her husband raising their three children. Joan Garvan, PhD (ANU): her thesis is titled Maternal Ambivalence in contemporary Australia: Navigating equity and care. She has an internet site, offers online professional development courses, and continues to work as an advocate with Maternal Health Matters. Joan is an inaugural member of Maternal Scholars Australia (formerly AMIRCI) and presented at conferences in Australia, Toronto, New York, and Florence. Joan was both a mature aged student and a mature aged mum and her children have blossomed into young adults.

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