Another Mother

Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Shanta Everington author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:8th Jun '23

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Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent partners – the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors – who make motherhood possible for them.

Exploring experiences of motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child, Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women who become mothers through surrogacy.

Offering a fresh approach to life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage, this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in motherhood studies, gender and women’s studies, life writing studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction writing approaches, oral history and ethnography studies.

"Through its use of interviews combined with a range of creative and editorial methods, the book brings to life stories relating to 'motherhood' that go beyond the biological mother ... Each chapter charts a different individual's experiences and includes donation, recipients, adopters, donors or mothers whose children were adopted, mothers through surrogacy or surrogates. The intimacy and the depth of exploration make it deeply moving, enriched all the more by the author's own experiences, impressions and poetic creations woven in the fabric of her interviewees' stories."

Appeared in Donor Conception Network Journal winter edition.

ISBN: 9781032268408

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 320g

176 pages