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Book Launch: Mother Trouble by Miranda Brady
November 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
Join us for the launch of Mother Trouble: Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave Feminism with author Miranda Brady in conversation with Shoshana Magnet.
Thurs. November 14, 7pm – 8pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Haven Café, 43 Seneca St. at Sunnyside Ave.
Mother Trouble traces white maternal angst in popular culture across a span of more than fifty years, from the iconic Rosemary’s Baby to anti-vaxx mom memes and HGTV shows. The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a manifestation of feminism’s unrealized possibilities and continued omissions since the second wave. It interrogates intersecting systems of power which make mothers and their children the most impoverished people in the world and urges a greater appreciation in academic and popular thinking of the work that mothers do.
The book calls for an analytical expansion beyond gender to better address the erasure of reproductive labour, and especially that performed by migrants and people of colour. It illustrates the continued marginalization of racialized mothers and the disproportionate amount of labour performed by all mothers in a society where their work is devalued. Ultimately, Mother Trouble reveals how the unease around white motherhood in the media has become a proxy for the troubles faced by all mothers.
Miranda J. Brady is an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University.
Shoshana Magnet is a professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at University of Ottawa.