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Victoria Bailey, Co-editor of Coming Into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism. In Mothering Outside the Lines: Tales of Boundary Busting Mamas, editors Michelann Parr and Betty Ann Martin stage a powerful intervention of the normative boundaries of motherhood ? limit points that appear to hold things together but too often suffocate the joyous potential of mothering relationality. Transforming imposed, arbitrary, and malicious rules for mothering into self/relationally made boundaries that can enhance and empower, the collection offers an essential reimaging of repressive forms of being and becoming. Explorations across the essays on the fluctuating edges of mothering that demand constant renegotiation affirm the critical importance of matricentric cultures to the mental health of individual mothers. Without a supportive matricentric culture that recognizes the dynamism of mothering across the lifespan, those who mother suffer the unbounded demands of undefined expectations: the torture of giving too much while wondering if they?ve done enough. Rather than teaching those in our care to over-give and under-appreciate, or to accept arbitrary boundaries without reflection, redrawing the lines of mothering engages the much broader social and political work of ethical relationality. Negotiating such dynamics by ?mothering outside the lines? not only empowers those who mother but rightfully places mothering at the center of what it means to build vibrant democratic societies. - Renée Valiquette, PhD, Interdisciplinary Studies, Nipissing University

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BettyAnn Martin is a narrative scholar interested in the reconstruction of experience through story, and the manner in which creative engagement with memory transforms individual consciousness. She re-discovered the therapeutic aspects of storytelling and writing while completing her PhD in Educational Sustainability from Nipissing University. Edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Transformation (2020) and Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood and Social Media (2016). Michelann Parr is mother to three children and nana to two. As full professor in the Schulich School of Education at Nipissing University, research interests include narrative inquiry, autoethnography, identity as lifework, sustainability as relationship with self, other, and all our relations, and family engagement. Recent and upcoming edited collections include Writing Mothers: Narrative Acts of Care, Redemption, and Solidarity (2020) and What the Pain of Mothers Must Never Expose (pending).

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