Global Perspectives on Motherhood, Mothering and Masculinities

Tola Olu Pearce (PhD. Brown University) is a sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. She also taught sociology at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria for 15 years. Research, teaching and publication interests are: women and children’s health in Africa, globalisation, social inequalities and Human Rights. Andrea Moraes (PhD. University of Missouri, Columbia) is a Brazilian/Canadian scholar in rural sociology. She is interested in indigenous populations, food security and rural development. Presently, she is a Lecturer at the School of Nutrition and the Chang School of Continuing Studies at Ryerson University Toronto in Canada.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

PART 1 CULTURAL NARRATIVES

1

Motherhood and the Construction of a Regional Hegemonic Masculinity
in Southwestern Nigeria
Tolá Olú Pearce

2
Exploring Perspectives on Black Motherhood, Parenting, and Child Rearing through Black Social Media Users’ Meme Circulation
Kierra Otis

3
Feminist Critique of the Representation of Motherhood and
Masculinity in Bollywood Cinema: Implications of Gender Violence
in the Indian Diaspora
Meghna Bhat

4
How the Principles of Matristic Societies Can Provide More Flexibility on Mothering, Motherhood, and Masculinities
Katharine I. Ransom

PART 11 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

5
Healing Foundational Wounds in Sons and Mothers: From Womb Envy to Asymmetrical Generativity
Cheryl Lynch-Lawler

6
Achieving Womanhood through Motherhood?
A Phenomenology of the Experience of Mothering for the Hijras in India
Stuti Das

7
Guerrilla Mothering: On Masculinities and Femininities
Victoria Team

8
Empowered Through Mothering:
Armenian Women’s Agency in Trauma and War in Karabakh
Sevan Beukian

PART 111 POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS

9
Kokum-Gikendaasowin: Grandmother Knowledge,
Epistemology and (Re)Generation of Anishinaabeg Malehoods
Renée E. Mzinegiizhigoo-Kwe Bédard

10
Masculinity and Motherhood: Engendering of Hindu Nationalism
Zairunisha

11
Cultural Gender Relations Revolutionized as Self-Created Transformative Village Community Networks (TVCONEs) Transcend in Tanzania
Rasel Madaha

12
‘More than a Woman’: Exploring Motherhood and Masculinities in Food
and Nutrition Security in Northern Vietnam
Andrea Moraes

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