2023
DOI: 10.1177/0308275x231216258
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Gender and the politics of maternalisms: Kinship-based imaginaries, responsibility and care in Australian refugee advocacy

Maila Stivens

Abstract: Feminist scholarship has often been profoundly ambivalent about maternalist political mobilisations, seeing them as posing dangers of essentialising motherhood and of colluding with male-centred social orders, conservative politics and top-down state projects. This article looks at the complex and fluid politics of protest groups adopting familial kinship maternalist identities to militate politically for refugees and people seeking asylum, with particular reference to the Australian Grandmothers for Refugees … Show more

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