Refiguring the Postmaternal

Refiguring postmaternalism requires extending the maternal beyond mothers and heterosexual nuclear families, and the memorialization of the maternal needs to diversify to destabilise associations of the maternal with neoliberalism and the depoliticization of feminism. This book was first published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Stu

Introduction: Refiguring the Postmaternal 1. Postmaternal, Postwork and the Maternal Death Drive 2. The 'Good' Attached Mother: An Analysis of Postmaternal and Postracial Thinking in Birth and Breastfeeding Policy in Neoliberal Britain 3. A Vision for Postmaternalism: Institutionalising Fathers' Engagement with Care 4. Belly Casts and Placenta Pills: Refiguring Postmaternal Entrepreneurialism 5. Embodied Care and Planet Earth: Ecofeminism, Maternalism and Postmaternalism 6. Postmaternal Times and Radical Feminist Thinking 7. Shape-shifting Around the Maternal: A Response