If anyone has any posts, research or links related to the Andrea Yates trial and related incidents, “ideal” motherhood, post-partum depression and psychosis, and any other subjects that deal with the societal harms of the prescriptive idealized mother/motherhood experience, please leave them in the comments.
Compiling research for a project and I’ve run into a wall.
well, there’s Brooke Shields new book on post-partum depression that’s coming out soon
i’m sure that helps you immensely, right?
lessee if i can get the HTML to work this time…
Lauren: This was a huge story in Toronto http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1102076331385_11/?hub=Canada
Not long after, services to women suffering from postpartum were cut out of the provincial health budget…
Naomi Wolf has a book out on the issue of motherhood: http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385497458&view=rg
Other links of interest:
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4478960&wauth=Moses%2C%20Kate&matches=18&qsort=r
http://www.brainchildmag.com/essays/summer2004_niesslein.html
You may have run across this already, but The MommyMyth, by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith Michaels addresses exactly this subject — the harm done by prescriptive notions of motherhood — and includes some discussion of Andrea Yates.
http://the-goddess.org/Morgaine-isms/M02.html paragraph 5 might be of interest.
http://the-goddess.org/blog/2004/07/alternet-cult-of-nature-worship.html
http://the-goddess.org/blog/2004/02/my-reply-to-why-europe-has-no-taste.html
I’ve never written specifically about Andrea Yates, but I’ve been saying for years that a host of our medical problems, including postpartum depression and psychosis result from ingesting animal foods produced with growth hormones.
I posted back in January. Dunno how helpful it is, but there you go. Sounds like an interesting project!
Hell! Let’s try that again. THIS post. Stupid HTML.