ABSTRACT
Maternal scholarship, more broadly, shares Ruddick's concern, to foreground the fact that mothers are subjects who give meaning to their own experience. As consumers, mothers and their children become visible. In shopping malls, on billboards, and in the media, mothers’ emotions are targeted in the form of marketing campaigns, advertisements, and various ploys to generate the business of parents. Curatorial Activism uses a variety of tactics to “challenge the racism, sexism, and homophobia that have been institutionalized in museums and canons over the centuries”. The women's history movement has done much work to foreground the importance of women's histories to trace a history of female oppression, but the task of women's history has been to illustrate women's identity and accomplishments beyond their role as mothers. In the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting has become more visible. A survey of online museum catalogues reveals that rarely has motherhood been granted contemplation as a curatorial theme in museum collections and programs.
