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Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood

Author : Linda Rose Ennis
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1926452712
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood written by Linda Rose Ennis and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays’ landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays’ concept of “intensive mothering” as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays’ original work, she spoke of “intensive mothering” as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children’s needs with methods informed by experts, which are labourintensive and costly simply because children are entitled to this maternal investment. While respecting the important need for connection between mother and baby that is prevalent in the teachings of Attachment Theory, this collection raises into question whether an over-investment of mothers in their children’s lives is as effective a mode of parenting, as being conveyed by representations of modern motherhood. In a world where independence is encouraged, why are we still engaging in “intensive motherhood?”

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

Author : Sharon Hays
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076523
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood written by Sharon Hays and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work. As more and more women enter the workplace, it would seem reasonable for society to make mothering a simpler and more efficient task. Instead, Sharon Hays points out in this original and provocative book, an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tensions working mothers face. Drawing on ideas about mothering since the Middle Ages, on contemporary childrearing manuals, and on in-depth interviews with mothers from a range of social classes, Hays traces the evolution of the ideology of intensive mothering--an ideology that holds the individual mother primarily responsible for child rearing and dictates that the process is to be child-centered, expert-guided, emotionally absorbing, labor-intensive, and financially expensive. Hays argues that these ideas about appropriate mothering stem from a fundamental ambivalence about a system based solely on the competitive pursuit of individual interests. In attempting to deal with our deep uneasiness about self-interest, we have imposed unrealistic and unremunerated obligations and commitments on mothering, making it into an opposing force, a primary field on which this cultural ambivalence is played out.

Taking the Village Online

Author : Lorin Basden Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772580822
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Taking the Village Online written by Lorin Basden Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributing authors in this anthology address diverse topics in mothering and social media, including framing of stepmothers in online forums, mothering in the digital diaspora, the construction of the "bad mother" on Twitter, immersive gaming and parenting classes, virtual mother outlaws, alternative mothering websites, feminist parenting, and more. While the works are primarily rooted in critical and feminist perspectives, a variety of methodologies and approaches to studying mothering and social media are represented in this text, and encourage a robust and thoughtful examination of the role of interactive media in the maternal experience. Lorin Basden Arnold, Ph.D. is a family communication and gender scholar. Her recent scholarly work has primarily related to understandings and enactments of motherhood.

Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities

Author : Petra Bueskens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317195450
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities written by Petra Bueskens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated ‘double shift’ that result in widespread calls to either ‘lean in’ or ‘opt out’? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and maternal selves? In Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as ‘individuals’ and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter. Bueskens’ theoretical contribution consists of the identification and analysis of modern women’s duality, drawing on political philosophy, feminist theory and sociology tracking the changing nature of discourses of women, freedom and motherhood across three centuries. While the current literature points to the pervasiveness of contradiction and double-shifts for mothers, very little attention has been paid to how (some) women are subverting contradiction and ‘rewriting the sexual contract’. Bridging this gap, Bueskens’ interviews ten ‘revolving mothers’ to reveal how periodic absence, exceeding the standard work-day, disrupts the default position assigned to mothers in the home, and in turn disrupts the gendered dynamics of household work. A provocative and original work, Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Women and Gender Studies, Sociology of Motherhood and Social and Political Theory.

Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice

Author : Kylie Baldwin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564851
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Egg Freezing, Fertility and Reproductive Choice written by Kylie Baldwin and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explores the experiences of some of the pioneering users of social egg freezing technology in the UK and the USA.

Militant Lactivism?

Author : Charlotte Faircloth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457594
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Militant Lactivism? written by Charlotte Faircloth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowledge claims and accountability, the author frames these accounts within a wider context of 'intensive parenting', arguing that parenting practices – infant feeding in particular – have become a highly moralized affair for mothers, practices which they feel are a critical aspect of their 'identity work'. The book investigates why, how and with what implications some of these mothers describe themselves as 'militant lactivists' and reflects on wider parenting culture in the UK and France. Discussing gender, feminism and activism, this study contributes to kinship and family studies by exploring how relatedness is enacted in conjunction to constructions of the self.

All on One Plate

Author : Solveig Brown
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781557789211
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book All on One Plate written by Solveig Brown and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reveals the contradictions between cultural and individual ideals of being a good mother and examines the transition to motherhood, division of labor, working out of the home or staying home, the diverse ways mothers oversee the various aspects of their children's lives while fostering achievement, and raising good kids"--

The Reproduction of Mothering

Author : Nancy Chodorow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221559
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Reproduction of Mothering written by Nancy Chodorow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text had a major impact on both feminists and psychoanalysts when it was first published, and it continues to shape the thinking of analysts and feminists today.

Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

Author : Tiffany Taylor
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787564010
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins written by Tiffany Taylor and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the barriers and borders that marginalize mothers and their efforts to be good mothers and how they mother as a form of resistance to these barriers and borders.

Parenting Culture Studies

Author : Ellie Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031441567
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Parenting Culture Studies written by Ellie Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Parenting Culture Studies seeks to understand how parenting is taken as a particular mode of childrearing that reflects broader social trends. Ten years after the initial volume's groundbreaking publication, the authors once again closely examine how the main aspects of parenting have been established, explored, and critically evaluated. Chapters revisit phenomena such as intensive parenting and politics around parenting, as well as controversial issues including policing pregnant women's bodies and parental determinism. In addition to updates throughout the volume, including those addressing literature that has built from the book’s original publication, the book features a new third part discussing parents dealing with risk assessment, school closures, contradictory care arrangements, and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism

Author : Giles Melinda Vandenbeld
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1927335744
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)

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Book Synopsis Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism by : Giles Melinda Vandenbeld

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.

A Womb of Her Own

Author : Ellen L.K. Toronto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315532557
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book A Womb of Her Own written by Ellen L.K. Toronto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women’s sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of individual women. It further examines how women have been viewed as the "other" and thus become the focus of mistreatment such as rape, sexual slavery, restriction of reproduction rights, and ongoing societal repression. Postmodern gender theories have greatly enhanced understanding of the fluidity of gender and freed women from repressive stereotypes, but attention has shifted prematurely from the power differential that continues to exist between men and women. Before the male/female binary is transcended, the limitations imposed upon women by the still prevailing patriarchal order must be addressed. To this end, A Womb of Her Own addresses issues such as the prevalence of rape culture and its historical roots; the relationship of the LGBT movement to feminism; current sexual practices such as sexting and tattooing and their meaning to women; reproductive issues including infertility; adoption; postpartum depression and the actual experience of birthing—all from the perspectives of women. The book also explores the cultural definitions of motherhood, and how such definitions set exacting standards both for the acceptable face of motherhood and for women generally. While women’s unique anatomy and biology have historically contributed to their oppression in a patriarchal society, it is the exploration and illumination of these capabilities from their own perspective that will allow women to claim and control them as their own. Covering a broad, topical range of contemporary subjects, A Womb of Her Own will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as scholars and students of gender and women’s studies.

Representations of Motherhood

Author : Donna Bassin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068634
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Motherhood written by Donna Bassin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the maternal experience from the mother's point of view. The book questions a society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, and presents images of generative and creative women who are also mothers. It also discusses the portrayal of mothers in art, film and literature.

Surveillance of Modern Motherhood

Author : Helen Simmons
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030453634
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Surveillance of Modern Motherhood written by Helen Simmons and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the reflections and experiences of mothers of children aged 0-3 years that have attended universal parenting courses. Simmons considers the factors that motivated mothers to attend a universal parenting course and explore the wider experiences of early modern motherhood in the UK. She investigates participants' perceptions of benefits of attending a parenting course, different forms of parenting advice accessed by mothers, and how this provides an insight into the wider constructs and experiences of modern motherhood. Ultimately, the book considers, through a feminist post-structuralist lens, the social and cultural pressures within modern motherhood in relation to different levels of surveillance, and produces new knowledge for practice within the early years and health sectors in relation to the support currently offered to new mothers. It will be of interest to students and scholars across the sociology of education, gender studies, and childhood studies.

Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives

Author : Pasche Florence Guignard
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772580619
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Mothers and Food: Negotiating Foodways from Maternal Perspectives written by Pasche Florence Guignard and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From multidisciplinary perspectives, this volume explores the roles mothers play in the producing, purchasing, preparing and serving of food to their own families and to their communities in a variety of contexts. By examining cultural representations of the relationships between feeding and parenting in diverse media and situations, these contributions highlight the tensions in which mothers get entangled. They show mothers’ agency — or lack thereof — in negotiating the environmental, material, and economic reality of their feeding care work while upholding other ideals of taste, nutrition, health and fitness shaped by cultural norms. The contributors to Mothers and Food go beyond the normative discourses of health and nutrition experts and beyond the idealistic images that are part of marketing strategies. They explore what really drives mothers to maintain or change their family’s foodways, for better or for worse, paying a particular attention to how this shapes their maternal identity. Questioning the motto according to which “people are what they eat,” the chapters in this volume show that mothers cannot be categorized simply by how they feed themselves and their family.

Encyclopedia of Motherhood

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266298
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To request a free 30-day online trial to this product, visit www.sagepub.com/freetrial In the last decade the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The first ever on the topic, this Encyclopedia of Motherhood helps to both demarcate motherhood as a scholarly field and an academic discipline and to direct its future development. With more than 700 entries, these three volumes provide information on the central terms, concepts, topics, issues, themes, debates, theories, and texts of this new discipline. Further, the encyclopedia examines the topic of motherhood in various contexts such as history and geography and by academic discipline. Key Features Provides an overview of the topic of motherhood in many and diverse disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy Examines the meaning and experience of motherhood in many time periods from classic civilizations to present day Includes an entry for all the influential theorists of maternal scholarship from the pioneering theories to the more recent writings Covers issues and events of our current times including entries on the mommy blog, the motherhood memoir, terrorism, reproductive technologies, HIV/AIDS, and LGBT families Explores geographical, cultural, and ethnic diversity with an entry for almost every country in the world as well as entries on lesbian, immigrant, adoptive, single, nonresidential, young, poor mothers and mothers with disabilities Key Themes History of Motherhood Issues in Motherhood Motherhood and Family Motherhood and Health Motherhood and Society Motherhood Around the World Motherhood in the United States Motherhood Studies Prominent Mothers In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The scope of the Encyclopedia of Motherhood is focused on providing a comprehensive resource to understanding the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, written by scholars and institutional experts in the social and behavioral sciences.

Impossible Parenting

Author : Olivia Scobie
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459746562
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Impossible Parenting written by Olivia Scobie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A roadmap for parents who want to feel less pressure and more joy during the intense early years of childrearing. Why is it that research suggests people who don’t have kids are happier than people who do? Olivia Scobie provides practical solutions for parents who find themselves pushing beyond their capacity to meet impossible standards, and challenges parents to shift their thinking from child centred to family centred. By naming today’s unrealistic parenting expectations as impossible from the get-go, Impossible Parenting creates the space to acknowledge harmful expectations for new parents and begins a conversation that focuses on healing and doing the best one can with the resources available.