Dr. Michelle Hughes Milleris an Associate
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South
Florida. She earned her M.A. and PhD in Sociology at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln while raising two wonderful children with her
husband, Rob Benford. As a feminist criminologist she researches
motherhood within legal and policy constraints. In addition to
publishing on criminalized and allegedly “bad” mothers, she is
co-editor of Addressing and Preventing Violence Against Women on
College Campuses (Temple University Press, forthcoming) and
Alliances for Advancing Academic Women: Guidelines for
Collaborating in STEM (Sense Publishers, 2014). She is currently
analyzing discourses of mothering in global economic and social
campaigns, along with very much enjoying being a new grandma.
Dr. Tamar Hageris a Senior Lecturer in the
Departments of Education and Gender Studies at Tel Hai College,
Israel. Motherhood, critical feminist methodology, art sociology
and fictional and academic writing, multiculturalism and critical
pedagogy are core issues of her academic research, writing,
teaching and social activism. She is the founder and the former
co-director of the college’s center for Peace and Democracy, whose
mandate is to academically and administratively develop and
implement the multicultural vision of the college. She published in
2000 a book of short stories A perfectly Ordinary Life (in Hebrew)
and in 2012 Malice Aforethought(in Hebrew), in which she attempts
to reconstruct the elusive biographies of two English working class
mothers who killed their babies at the end of the 19th century.
Dr. Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is a mother of four
who works as lawyer, legal academic, writer, artist, and activist.
She has a PhD in law and legal studies from Carleton University, an
LL.M. and LL.B. from Queen’s University, a Graduate Certificate in
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of
Cincinnati, and a BA (Hon.) in anthropology from the University of
Calgary. She has published articles and texts on many áreas of law
as they related to mothers, gender, and equality and is author of
Looking for Ashley: Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals About
Governance of Girls, Mothers, and Families in Canada. (Demeter
Press, 2015). Rebecca has been practicing law in Ontario, Canada,
since 2003.
?Bad Mothers makes a significant contribution to understanding how the constructed ?dangerous mother? continues to trouble major institutional areas such as law, governance, economy, and child protection services in ways that reveal why our society remains invested in marginalizing mothers instead of seriously addressing the numerous, interconnecting obstacles they face in raising children.? ?ERICA S. LAWSON, Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies and Feminist Research, University of Western Ontario ?Through visual and literary works, this collection demonstrates the resistance of those who refuse to conform to the institutions that earn them the label of bad mothers.? ?ARLENE SGOUTAS, Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Women's Studies and Services, Metropolitan State University of Denver
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