Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literar

Writing is intellectual, solitary work, and mothering too often seen as its antithesis. Marni Jackson's The Mother Zone, published in 1992, gave many readers th

Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention fo

Blessed Events explores how women who give birth at home use religion to make sense of their births and in turn draw on their birthing experiences to bring mean

The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s