New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork (Dislodging the Unthinkable)

About

Roksana Badruddoja is a feminine and masculine woman a Bangladeshi American a queer a Muslim a mother to a fierce 12-year-old girl and a professor of sociology and womens and gender studies. Before joining the faculty at Manhattan College she was the Vice President of Research for the Partnership for the Homeless in NYC and up until then she was a professor at California State University Fresno. She teaches courses on feminist research methods women of color in the U.S. feminist activism race and ethnicity sociology of gender and representations of women. Dr. Badruddojas research in the areas of race and ethnicity sexuality gender religion and culture and how these impact South Asian American women has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. These include the National Womens Studies Association Journal the International Journal of Sociology of the Family and the International Review of Modern Sociology. She is the author of Eyes of the Storms: The Voices of South Asian-American Women. Maki Motapanyane is an Associate Professor of Womens and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University. Her teaching is rooted in liberatory pedagogy focused in courses on colonialism and decolonization global gender issues and transnationalism environmental justice/liberation ecology and Hip-Hop culture. Her research spans the fields of feminist theory motherhood and cultural studies with academic publications featuring a range of interrelated thematic interests including feminist theory transnational feminist research methods mothering and motherhood racialized comedy in Canada and gender in Hip-Hop culture. She is the editor of Mothering in Hip-Hop Culture: Representation and Experience(Demeter Press 2012) and editor of Motherhood and Lone/Single Parenting: A 21st Century Perspective(Demeter Press 2016).