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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Hayden
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739138928
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice written by Sara Hayden and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemplating Maternity explore how discourses of choice shape and are shaped by womenOs identities and experiences as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect private practices and public policies related to reproduction and motherhood. This volume is unique because it investigates discourses of choice across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various (non)maternal subject positions.
Author : Megan D. McFarlane
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520344685
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Militarized Maternity written by Megan D. McFarlane and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet, few discussions have focused on the U.S. military, where many of the latest policy changes focus on these very issues. Despite the armed forces' increases to maternity-related benefits, servicewomen continue to be stigmatized for being pregnant and taking advantage of maternity policies. In an effort to understand this disconnect, Megan McFarlane analyzes military documents and conducts interviews with enlisted servicewomen and female officers. She finds a policy/culture disparity within the military that pregnant servicewomen themselves often co-construct, making the policy changes significantly less effective. McFarlane ends by offering suggestions for how these policy changes can have more impact and how they could potentially serve as an example for the broader societal debate.
Author : Lynn O'Brien Hallstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429895216
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Mothering Rhetorics written by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at how exploring mothering rhetorics – the rhetorics of reproduction (rhetorics about the reproductive function of women/mothers) and reproducing rhetorics (the rhetorical reproduction of ideological systems and logics of contemporary culture) expand our understanding of mothering, motherhood, communication, and gender. Mothering Rhetorics begins to fill this gap for scholars and teachers interested in the study of mothering rhetorics in their historical and contemporary permutations. The contributions explore the racialized rhetorical contexts of maternity; how fixing food is thought to fix families, while also regulating maternal activities and identity; how Black female breastfeeding activists resisted the exploitation of African-American mothers in Detroit; how women in pink-collar occupations both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability; identifying verbal and nonverbal shaming practices related to unwed motherhood during the mid-twentieth century; and redefining alternative postpartum placenta practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s Studies in Communication.
Author : Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025205119X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Homeland Maternity written by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In US security culture, motherhood is a site of intense contestation--both a powerful form of cultural currency and a target of unprecedented assault. Linked by an atmosphere of crisis and perceived vulnerability, motherhood and nation have become intimately entwined, dangerously positioning national security as reliant on the control of women's bodies. Drawing on feminist scholarship and critical studies of security culture, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz explores homeland maternity by calling our attention to the ways that authorities see both non-reproductive and "overly" reproductive women's bodies as threats to social norms--and thus to security. Homeland maternity culture intensifies motherhood's requirements and works to discipline those who refuse to adhere. Analyzing the opt-out revolution, public debates over emergency contraception, and other controversies, Fixmer-Oraiz compellingly demonstrates how policing maternal bodies serves the political function of securing the nation in a time of supposed danger--with profound and troubling implications for women's lives and agency.
Author : Karma R. Chávez
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438444893
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Standing in the Intersection written by Karma R. Chávez and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the decades of work by women of color and allied feminists, Standing in the Intersection is the first book in more than a decade to bring communication studies and feminist intersectional theories in conversation with one another. The authors in this collection take up important conversations relating to notions of style, space, and audience, and engage with the rhetoric of significant figures, including Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Jordan, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde, as well as crucial contemporary issues such as campus activism and political asylum. In doing so, they ask us to complicate notions of space, location, and movement; to be aware of and explicit with regard to our theorizing of intersecting and contradictory identities; and to think about the impact of multiple dimensions of power in understanding audiences and audiencing.
Author : B. Craig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137337583
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende written by B. Craig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space.
Author : D. Hallstein
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230608634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)
Download or read book White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity written by D. Hallstein and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores matrophobia - the fear not of one s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one s mother - in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mothering. By tracing white second wave feminism s strategic choice to organize first as sisters then as daughters, O Brien Hallstein argues matrophobia became embedded in past and continues to linger in contemporary feminist analyses. As a result, contemporary analyses reveal crucially important but limited understandings of contemporary motherhood and mothering. This important work concludes that matrophobia can be reduced and eliminated by reorienting analyses to mutual responsiveness between sisters and daughters, second and third wave feminists.
Author : Catherine L. Riley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003818447
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Creating Supportive Spaces for Pregnant and Parenting College Students written by Catherine L. Riley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together interdisciplinary research, theoretical perspectives, and detailed explanations of paths and examples to help colleges become supportive spaces for pregnant and parenting students. Expanding the discourse around pregnant and parenting college students to a more interdisciplinary and international arena, this volume follows the ground-breaking disquisition, formerly set forth by ‘Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students (Riley, Hutchinson, Dix 2022)’, to define this cohesive field and bring together separate voices to help colleges become more supportive spaces after the . The chapters explore academia’s attitude toward motherhood, families, and care work, the invisibility of pregnant and parenting students, system-wide negligence, the forgotten nature of student-fathers, unacknowledged miscarriages, organized policy change efforts, involved agencies of change, the troubling presence of coercion, and more. While arguing that barriers currently prevent colleges from becoming supportive spaces, the volume asserts that improvements are both feasible and vital for ensuring that institutions of higher education are complying with Title IX, a U.S. federal law. Offering interdisciplinary research, explanations of problems, and paths for progress, this edited volume will be useful to scholars, researchers, administrators, and activists working to support pregnant and parenting students. Various chapters will also interest those working in higher education administration, education policy, reproductive health, gender studies, and health and organizational communication more broadly. Supporting pregnant and parenting college students, however, is a shared responsibility belonging to all members of a campus community; accordingly, this volume is for every institution that plans to comply with Title IX.
Author : Tasha Oren
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317542630
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism written by Tasha Oren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism as a method, a movement, a critique, and an identity has been the subject of debates, contestations and revisions in recent years, yet contemporary global developments and political upheavals have again refocused feminism’s collective force. What is feminism now? How do scholars and activists employ contemporary feminism? What feminist traditions endure? Which are no longer relevant in addressing contemporary global conditions? In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars reflect on how contemporary feminism has shaped their thinking and their field as they interrogate its uses, limits, and reinventions. Organized as a set of questions over definition, everyday life, critical intervention, and political activism, the Handbook takes on a broad set of issues and points of view to consider what feminism is today and what current forces shape its future development. It also includes an extended conversation among major feminist thinkers about the future of feminist scholarship and activism. The scholars gathered here address a wide variety of topics and contexts: activism from post-Soviet collectives to the Arab spring, to the #MeToo movement, sexual harassment, feminist art, film and digital culture, education, technology, policy, sexual practices and gender identity. Indispensable for scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students in women, gender, and sexuality, the collection offers a multidimensional picture of the diversity and utility of feminist thought in an age of multiple uncertainties.
Author : Hallstein Lynn O'Brien
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1927335647
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Academic Motherhood in a Post Second Wave Context written by Hallstein Lynn O'Brien and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors detail what it means to be an academic mother and to think about academic motherhood, while also exploring both the personal and specific institutional challenges academic women face, the multifaceted strategies different academic women are implementing to manage those challenges, and investigating different theoretical possibilities for how we think about academic motherhood.
Author : Lynn OBrien Hallstein
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438459017
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Bikini-Ready Moms written by Lynn OBrien Hallstein and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of body work. The requirements of good motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn OBrien Hallstein analyzes celebrity mom profiles to determine the various ways that they encourage all mothers to engage in body work as the energizing solution to solve any work-life balance struggles they might experience. Bikini-Ready Moms also considers the ways that maternal body work erases any evidence of mothers contributions both at home and in professional contexts. Hallstein theorizes possible ways to fuel a necessary mothers revolution, while also pointing to initial strategies of resistance. Bikini-Ready Moms contributes a great deal to understanding both the obsession with celebrity mom profiles and the pressure that mothers are under to conform to and perform intensive mothering as it shifts into another gear to control women. Fiona Joy Green, author of Practicing Feminist Mothering
Author : Katherine Elizabeth Mack
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081736112X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Case for Single Motherhood written by Katherine Elizabeth Mack and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought--and continue to seek--to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations Scholars of rhetoric have largely overlooked the inherent rhetoricity of family. In The Case for Single Motherhood, Katherine Mack posits family as a central concern of rhetorical studies by reflecting on how language is used by single mothers who seek to reenvision the personal, social, and political meanings of family. Drawing on intersectional and rhetorical theories, Mack demonstrates how the category of elective single motherhood emerged in response to the historically differential treatment of "unwed mothers" along racial and class lines. Through her readings of a range of self-sponsored ESM texts--guidebooks, memoirs, and interactive digital media written by and primarily for other ESMs--and from her perspective as an elective single mother herself, Mack evaluates the rhetorical power, as well as the exclusions and hierarchies, that the ESM label effects. She analyzes how ESMs envision motherhood, visions that entail their musings about who can and should mother. Ultimately, Mack offers women who are considering nonnormative paths to motherhood a way to affirm their maternal identities and paths without disparaging others'. Scholars in the fields of rhetoric and feminist rhetorical studies will find in this volume an illuminating perspective on the rhetorical power of self-sponsored texts in particular. Crafting a methodology to identify and evaluate the goals and effects of legitimacy work and selecting sources that bring academic attention to varied genres of self-sponsored writings, Mack paves the way for future rhetorical studies of motherhood and family.
Author : Dennis K. Mumby
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412970083
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies written by Dennis K. Mumby and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the increasingly diverse terrain of 21st century organizational life, research-ers and students are exploring theoretical frameworks and analytic tools that attempt to understand organizing proc-esses in all of their richness and complexity. As such, there is widespread recognition of the need to ex-amine organizations as constructed through, and repositories of, difference; that is, as complex intersec-tions of discourses of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other markers of difference. In this sense, organi-zations are one of the principal sites where differences that make a difference (Bateson) are produced and reproduced. Communication is not something that simply occurs in organizations; rather, organizing processes are constituted and made meaningful by the mundane communication practices of its members. This book examines difference as a communicative phenomenon: The differences that make a difference are social and material constructions that can be productively understood by examining them as communica-tively accomplished. All of the scholars in this volume explore difference from a variety of per-spectives, each of which examines systematically the relationships among communication, organizing, and difference. KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS: The book explores the relationships among communication, organizing, and difference through three foci: (1) Research, (2) Pedagogy, and (3) Practice. In Section I-Researching Difference, organizational communication scholars explore a number of ways in which differ-ence can be critically examined as a communicative phenomenon, with the goal being to demonstrate the importance of difference as a construct a sensitizing device through which the complexities of organiza-tional communication processes can be examined and better understood. In Section II-Teaching Difference, chapters move beyond teaching diversity in the workplace and instead explore how students can learn to appreciate
Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772583820
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, Practice. The 2nd Edition written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2nd edition includes a new preface that considers how matricentric feminism in positioning mothering as a verb affords a gender-neutral understanding of motherwork and allows for an appreciation of how motherwork is deeply gendered and how this may be challenged and changed through empowered mothering The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face are specific to women's role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers' concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic of empowerment. O'Reilly terms this new mode of feminism matricentic feminism and the book explores how it is represented and experienced in theory, activism, and practice.
Author : Giles Melinda Vandenbeld
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1927335744
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism written by Giles Melinda Vandenbeld and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal policies and austerity measures have unequivocally altered the landscape of women’s lives globally. The most detrimental effect has been on mothers as they are faced with increasing responsibility and decreasing resources. Despite mothers being the primary producers, consumers, and repro- ducers of the neoliberal world, their centrality has been largely silenced within economic discourse. Thus, Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism calls for a new economic framework to counter the individualized neoliberal model, one in which the needs of mothers and children are prioritized. This volume provides a crucial starting point. By identifying the sources of neoliberal failure toward mothers, we can begin to collectively formulate an alternative paradigm in which mothers’ voices are no longer rendered invisible, but rather predominate in the global landscape.
Author : Tony E. Adams
Publisher : Understanding Qualitative Rese
ISBN 13 : 0199972095
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Autoethnography written by Tony E. Adams and published by Understanding Qualitative Rese. This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with examples, this book demonstrates how qualitative researchers can use autoethnography as a method for qualitative research. Topics include a brief history of autoethnography; the purposes and practices of doing autoethnography; interpreting, analyzing, and representing personal experience; and evaluating autoethnographic work.
