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A Child on Her Mind: The Experience of Becoming a Mother

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Full Title:

A Child on Her Mind: The Experience of Becoming a Mother

Contributors:

By (Author) Vangie Bergum

ISBN:

9780897894463

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Praeger Publishers Inc

Publication Date:

14th January 1997

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Gender studies: women and girls

Dewey:

306.8743

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

208

Description

Stories of women who mother are central to this work. The women are birth mothers, placing mothers, adopting mothers and teen mothers. Woven between their narratives, Bergum offers reflective commentary intended to show the mothering experience in all its complexity - bodily, culturally, and as the rootbed of relationship. The author uses research to bring the mothering experience to light, as it is lived, by exploring themes of love and pain, responsibilty, belonging, choice, transformation, and quickening of moral impulse to attend to the child. Bergum's intent is to encourage thoughtful reflection about what is learned through mothering, by women and by society, in order to create and sustain a society that is good for children and the women who mother them.

Reviews

The voices of a rich diversity of women who share the transformative experience of becoming mothers are the basis of Bergum's intensely emotional contribution to parenting literature. The themes of mothering as choice and responsibility, as love and pain, and, ultimately, as transformation emerge from accounts of mothers who give birth, two mothers connected by adoption, and teen mothers, as well as from consideration of the universal mother. . . . [A] lyrical, moving essay. . . . [Bergum's] writing is provocative and compelling. * Booklist *
Bergum shines brightest in her final chapter, The Way of the Mother. Here she does an artful job of drawing out the commonalities in the varied experiences of motherhood described by the diverse group of women she has interviewed, and she makes an eloquent case for motherhood as the basis of a morality of responsibility. * Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering *

Author Bio

Vangie Bergum, PhD, is Professor in The Bioethics Centre and the Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta. She is principal investigator of the Ethics of Nurturance Research Project which produced the video and, they want a child (University of Alberta, 1996). She is the author of numerous works, including Woman to Mother: A Transformation (Bergin & Garvey, 1989).

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