Writer's statement
My maternal journey, like others’, is complicated. I come from an immediate matrilineage that bears witness to disrupted maternities. Mothers leaving their children, children sent away in the wider context of poverty, loss, abuse and trauma. I was one of six children, the second child born to teenag...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Studies in the Maternal |
| Online Access: | https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4169/ |
| Summary: | My maternal journey, like others’, is complicated. I come from an immediate matrilineage that bears witness to disrupted maternities. Mothers leaving their children, children sent away in the wider context of poverty, loss, abuse and trauma. I was one of six children, the second child born to teenage Irish parents – a Catholic father and Protestant mother in the mid-1970s. My maternal journey started with my own mother, a relationship that, although primary, has been at best consistently fraught, at worst destructive or nonexistent. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-0434 |