Dangerous Ideas about Mothers

Overview

This book won't give advice on birth, breastfeeding, or bonding It's about motherhood as a cultural construct.Often, opinions are funneled into and amplified on social media, where conversations turn ugly and advice is commercialized. This book confronts issues from divorce and over-burdened court systems, parenting children with a disability, to the big business of mummy-dom, to shifting ideas about fathers, to the increasing numbers of women who choose not to have children. It opens up a space where the taboo and unspoken can be voiced, and makes room for those marginalized by regular conversations around mothers and motherhood.  

Author Biography

Camilla Nelson is Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame Australia.She co-edited an essay collection, On Happiness: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century. Dr Rachel Robertson is a writer and Senior Lecturer at Curtin University, Western Australia. Her memoir, Reaching One Thousand, was published in 2012.