Download or read book Motherhood and Space written by Sarah Hardy and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection explores the complex ways motherhood is experienced by studying the concrete and imaginary spaces mothers inhabit. The authors examine locations for birth, negotiations of domesticity, institutional framings of the mother's world, and maternal metaphors in art and popular culture. Using conceptions of space as a common lens, these essays articulate the interplay between motherhood as a cultural construction and motherhood as a lived experience. The collection as a whole reveals how the spaces of motherhood are varied, changing, and politically charged.