Laura Browder receives Virginia Foundation for the Humanities award
July 26, 2011
Dr. Laura Browder, Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies, Department of English, has been awarded a $5000 grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for partial support of her film, Mothers at War.
This documentary film will provide an in-depth exploration of the unique and unusual circumstances of some of the 250,000 women in U.S. military service who have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding areas. The film will explore how these women – the mothers in particular -- who are marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen negotiate the intricacies of juggling deployment and motherhood, and how their stories shape public opinion about women in combat and maternity. The film will investigate the complex issues of military motherhood, including single motherhood, multiple deployments, simultaneous deployments of husbands and wives, and the strong bonds formed between military women who have left children behind to serve their country.
The Mothers at War project grew out of Dr. Browder’s exhibit and book, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging. This exhibition is currently on view at the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Quantico, VA.
This documentary film will provide an in-depth exploration of the unique and unusual circumstances of some of the 250,000 women in U.S. military service who have been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding areas. The film will explore how these women – the mothers in particular -- who are marines, soldiers, sailors and airmen negotiate the intricacies of juggling deployment and motherhood, and how their stories shape public opinion about women in combat and maternity. The film will investigate the complex issues of military motherhood, including single motherhood, multiple deployments, simultaneous deployments of husbands and wives, and the strong bonds formed between military women who have left children behind to serve their country.
The Mothers at War project grew out of Dr. Browder’s exhibit and book, When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging. This exhibition is currently on view at the National Museum of the Marine Corps near Quantico, VA.