Bio: Amy Wagner, PT, DPT, PhD, GCS, is Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX. She has scholarly interests in the areas of motherhood, postpartum health, aging, disability studies, and the health humanities. She has presented at several national conferences and published papers previously, including on the topic of disability and motherhood.
Abstract
Matrilineal heritage can bring about both areas of connection and disconnection relating to a mother’s life choices. This paper will use autoethnography, and theoretical frameworks of matricentric feminism, feminist motherhood, rural motherhood, and the grandmother hypothesis to discuss ways of overcoming various forms of oppression, including poverty. Hardships are inevitable; systemic barriers exist in the life of women and mothers, including financial challenges. Community mothering and co-mothering provide means of access to social capital and communal networks that provide resistance to normative motherhood. Rather than placing blame on mothers, systemic means of overcoming can provide a path forward.
Wilding motherhood: matrilineal connection/disconnection from Alaska
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