Another Mother: Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation

Another Mother explores motherhood through adoption, surrogacy, and egg donation, providing personal testimonies and examining the unique relationships between adopters, birth mothers, and other mothers. Using a hybrid form, the book is recommended for those interested in motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing studies, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Another Mother is a powerful and poignant exploration of motherhood that goes beyond the traditional narrative of a biological mother raising her child. Through in-depth interviews and a multidisciplinary approach, author Everington sheds light on the experiences of women who become mothers through adoption, surrogacy, and egg donation, as well as their silent partners—the birth mothers, surrogate mothers, and egg donors—who make motherhood possible for them.

The book delves into the complex and often 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. It offers a fresh perspective on life writing, combining edited interviews, re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essays, and quotation collage in a hybrid form.

This topical book is highly 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. Another Mother provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of motherhood and the diverse ways in which it can be experienced, challenging traditional notions and promoting empathy and understanding.

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032268408