This quantity is the firstborn of the Annals of Cultural Psychology-- a each year edited booklet sequence within the box of Cultural Psychology. It got here into being as there's a desire for mirrored image on “where and what” the self-discipline must additional boost, in this kind of means, the present frontiers and to foster the elaboration of latest fruitful ideas.

The subject selected for the 1st quantity might be the main basic of all- motherhood. we're all right here simply because at a few unspecifiable time some time past, varied ladies worked tough to carry every one people into this international. those ladies weren't deliberating tradition, yet have been simply giving start. but through their reproductive success—and years of fear approximately our turning out to be up—we at the moment are, fortunately to them, capable of speak about the final idea of motherhood from the attitude of cultural psychology. all people who's born wishes a mother—first the true one, after which very likely a myriad of symbolic ones—from “my mom” to “mother greater” to “my motherland”. hence, it isn't by way of twist of fate if the 1st quantity of the sequence is set motherhood. We the editors believe it's the subject that hyperlinks our life with one of many universals of human survival as a species.

In very normal phrases what this booklet goals to do is to query the ontology of Motherhood in want of an ontogenetic method of Life’s path, the place having a toddler represents a huge transition in a woman’s trajectory and the place turning into (or now not turning into) mom is heuristically extra fascinating than being a mom. We the following current a reticulated paintings that digs right into a cultural phenomenon giving to the readers the transparent suggestion of constructing motherhood (and now not taking without any consideration motherhood). by way of taking a look at absences, shadows and ruptures instead of the normativeness of motherhood, cultural psychology promises a theoretical version in explaining the cultural multifaceted nature of human activity.