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JourMS Issue 11 2026

Reproductive Identities & Resistance

Mothers and Others in Culture, Community, & Collaboration

Elizabeth Charles, MFALetter from the Editor
Aurélia GervasoniIs It My Fault? Resisting My Own Fear of Impossibility to Conceive — It’s an IF & a WHEN — may they reunite
Madhushala SenaratneNegotiating encounters of shame in reproductive identity-making
Krista Marie Clark Cline, Cassidy Spencer“I feel guilty when I get hungry and want to eat”: A Qualitative Analysis of Pregnant Women and Their Surveillance of Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Markella KaplaniFrom Motherhood as Role to Matrescence as Resistance: Reclaiming Identity, Desire, and Relational Agency After Birth
Megan Elizabeth HoggMother’s Milk: An A/r/tographic Diary Extract from The Breastfeeding Art Therapist Trainee
Amy Wagner, PT, DPT, PhD; Susan N. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD; Amy F. Crocker, PT, DPT, PhDMother as Athlete: Trans(forming)New Identities Postpartum
Micah DaufenbachThe Nap
Lucy Wolfe, Lisa O’Rourke Scott, and Nuala FinucaneSleepless Inheritance: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Continuity, Change, Maternal Adequacy and Moral Decision Making Around Infant Sleep in Irish Mother-Daughter Dyads
Courtney Lee WeidaDreams for Daughters: Intergenerational Symbols of Longing, House, and Home
Lisa Worth HuberMusing on Mothering
Kathryn Anne WadePracticing Motherhood: Shifting the Paradigm from Good Mother to Existential Ways of Being
Agnes R. Howard“I Should Have Known Better”: Maternal Professions of Ignorance as Cultural Critique
Maria Bartolomeo-MaidaWhen motherhood moves beyond raising children to triple caregiving across the family network
Jillian Morley, MPA and Elizabeth Day, PhDNew York State Mothers’ Decision Making and the Impact of Paid Family Leave
Anna MaslennikovProject 5=3
Genevieve NrenzahAdanelile or ɔbatandiɛ: Moral Imagination of Motherhood, Hospitality, Care, and Womanhood among the Wassa and Nzema of Western Ghana.
Isabel Löfgren & Patricia GoùveaTreading the Ground Sensibly: Deep memory of Black motherhood and visual repair in Mãe Preta
Pooja Gupta“Is the Child Gonna Live?”: Maternal Resistance and Power in Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland
Vera GailisNo Category Called Motherhood: Feminist Archival Retrieval and the Yemenite Children Affair
Rose Marie Prins, PhDThe Intersection of Art and Activism in New Mexico, 1980s to the Present, Focusing on Two Multimedia Artworks: Suttee, Moths and the Bomb, a Trinity, and They Had No Time to Say Goodbye
Jennifer Milarski-StermsekInto the Fire