Mothers, Mothering, and Covid-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mothers and motherwork, with little research conducted on this topic. This collection explores the impact of the pandemic on mothers' care and wage labor in various contexts, including employment, schooling, communities, families, and relationships. It highlights the increasing complexity and demands of childcare, domestic labor, elder care, and home schooling, as well as the challenges of performing wage labor at home. The collection also examines the impact of the pandemic on mothers' employment and the strategies used to manage care and wage labor. Through creative art, poetry, photography, and creative writing, the collection seeks to make visible what has been invisibilized and render audible what has been silenced, highlighting the care and crisis of motherwork through and after the pandemic.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 350 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2021
Publisher: Demeter Press

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a limited impact on research regarding the specific effects on mothers and motherwork. This collection stands as a pioneering effort to examine the profound effects of the pandemic on mothers' care and wage labor within the diverse contexts of employment, education, communities, families, and the intricate relationships between parents and children. With a global outlook and a focus on single, partnered, queer, racialized, Indigenous, economically disadvantaged, disabled, and birthing mothers, the volume delves into the escalating complexities and demands of childcare, domestic work, elder care, and home schooling imposed by pandemic protocols. It explores the intricacies and challenges of performing wage labor at home, the profound impact of the pandemic on mothers' employment, and the innovative strategies employed by mothers to navigate the competing pressures of care and wage labor amidst COVID-19. Through a blend of creative art, poetry, photography, and creative writing, alongside rigorous scholarly research, the collection aims to bring to light what has been obscured and amplify the voices that have been silenced: the care and crisis of motherwork both during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Weight: 894g
Dimension: 153 x 230 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781772583434