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Item Homeworking: Domestic Space and Creativity(2018-05) Valdez, Kate Bisset; Simon, Julie; Pointer, Amy; Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences; Master of Fine Arts in Integrated DesignThis project explored how domestic spaces, the places people have carved out in which to live and also work, along with the everyday experiences artists have in those places, influenced creative practice and artistic fulfillment. This exploration was documented visually by spending time with people who have committed to a creative career path and also have an equally weighted domestic life, therefore, examining the ways in which they have determined how to construct and navigate these two realms, the domestic and the artistic. The project hopes to make a contribution to dispel a misinformed mythology of what it means to be an “artist.” By misinformed mythology, I took my cues from Cultural ReProducers, a group of cultural workers who believe that no one should have to choose between having a successful career in the arts and having a family, arguing that this has been the case for too long. The project looked to discover a vision of what normalizing the artistic life for the 21st century looks like.Item Marginalization and Hope: Personal Narratives of Previously Incarcerated Mothers(Bradford: Demeter Press, 2015-01) Wyatt-Nichol, Heather; Seabrook, RenitaIncarceration among women in America's correctional system has dramatically increased over the past several decades, an increase of approximately ten percent each year (Laux et al.). Not surprisingly the majority of imprisoned when, approximately 70 percent, are mothers with dependent children (Poehlmann). Women have an average of two to three children living with them prior to incarceration (Laux et al.; Polluck). Within state institutions, 64 percent of incarcerated women had at least one child under the age of eighteen prior to incarceration —the number increases to 84 percent in federal prisons (Laux et al.; Figueira-McDonough and Sarri; Morash and Schream; Moses; Snyder; Tuerk and Loper).Item Mothering in the Context of Poverty: Disciplining Peruvian Mothers through Children’s Rights(lectito, 2019-09-10) Aufseeser, DenaThis article explores discourses surrounding poverty and mothering in the context of Peru. It specifically suggests that claims in the name of children’s rights provide a more morally acceptable way to discipline economically disadvantaged mothers. Mothers are framed as ‘bad parents’ when their children fail to experience so-called ‘global childhoods’, spent in school and the home, and not in paid work. However, in Andean culture, children begin working alongside their parents at a young age as they learn to become active members in society. Rather than recognising motherhood as socially constructed, internationally-funded NGOs and government officials emphasise a need to teach mothers about the cultural dangers of work. However, I suggest that in doing so, poverty is reframed as a cultural problem, of which mothers are to blame. This overlooks significant economic inequality as well as different conceptions of motherhood and childhood. The article examines how mothers negotiate competing demands in the context of discourses of global childhood, and is based on field work conducted over 14 months in 2009 and 2010, with follow up research in 2011 and 2014.Item What We Don't Say(2020-06-01) Lyon-Vaiden, Catherine; Lessard, Suzannah; Toumani, Meline; Orange, Michelle; Madeline, Blais; MFA in Creative NonfictionThis manuscript is a memoir in essay form. Placed in succession, the essays tell the story of a young woman attempting to navigate life outside the boundaries of Christianity, wellness culture, and motherhood in a social media saturated age.