A Mother's Day Collection
Mother’s Day is an annual celebration of motherhood’s immense value. In honor of this holiday, Hopkins Press has compiled a list of journal articles encompassing the many facets of motherhood: historical accounts of motherhood, poets’ commemorations of their mothers, discussions of the impacts of political circumstances on motherhood, motherhood in the academy, and more. The scholarship below has been made freely available through the month of May.
Seeking Perfect Motherhood: Women, Medicine, and Libraries
Rima D. Apple
Library Trends
Volume 60, Number 4, Spring 2012
Babies in Baskets: Motherhood, Tourism, and American Identity in Baby Shows, 1916-1949
Mary Klann
Journal of Women’s History
Volume 29, Number 2, Summer 2017
Brooklyn Walk-Up
Michael Waters
The Hopkins Review
Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2021
A Mother Who Leaves is a Mother Who Loves: Labor Migration as Part of the Filipina Life Course and Migration
Valerie Frachesco-Menchavez
Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 22, Number 1, February 2019
Black Maternal Aesthetics
Jennifer C. Nash
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019
Lectures, Evaluations, and Diapers: Navigating the Terrains of Chicana Single Motherhood in the Academy
Michelle Téllez
Feminist Formations
Volume 25, Issue 3, Winter 2013
A Narrative of Fear: Advice to Mothers
Berit Åström
Literature and Medicine
Volume 33, Number 1, Spring 2015
Seals, Selfies, and the Settler State: Indigenous Motherhood and Gendered Violence in Canada
Elizabeth Rule
American Quarterly
Volume 70, Number 4, December 2018
"The Mamas Were Ripe": Ideologies of Motherhood and Public Resistance in a South African Township
Judith Stevenson
Feminist Formations
Volume 23, Issue 2, Summer 2011
Elegy
Alena Hairston
Callaloo
Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2013
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