Many migrant mothers residing in Paris find themselves a situation marked by legal precarity, which causes them to be suspended between disparate possible futures for their families. This paper examines the case of one such mother. proposes notion “space hesitation” denote way precarity creates specific timespace like Um Ahmed they perform mothering. is at once juggling multiple, futures, and s...

Studies of mother-infant relationships in nonhuman primates have increasingly attempted to understand the neuroendocrine bases of interindividual variation in mothering styles and the mechanisms through which early exposure to variable mothering styles affects infant behavioral development. In this study of free-ranging rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico, we aimed to: 1) compare lact...

she returns to time and time again in her many interviews and articles. In her reflections on motherhood, both inside and outside her fiction, Morrison articulates a fully developed theory of African American mothering that is central to her larger political and philosophical stance on black womanhood. Building upon black women’s experiences of, and perspectives on motherhood, Morrison develops...

Motherhood can be argued to a central theme in many recent Spanish horror films. From El Orfanato/ The Orphanage or Los Otros/ Others to, more recently, Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi/ Witching and Bitching Musarañas/ Shrew’s Nest, mention but few, their narratives are based on the figure of (Good/Bad) mother. Their struggles choices mothering move action forward bring story, ultimately depicting t...