Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer
exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their
children seem to be making a radical lifestyle choice. Indeed, the
women at the center of The Paradox of Natural Mothering have
renounced consumerism and careerism in order to reclaim home and
family. These natural mothers favor parenting practices that set
them apart from the mainstream: home birth, extended breast
feeding, home schooling, and natural health care. Regarding
themselves as part of a movement, natural mothers believe they are
changing society one child, one family at a time.
Author Chris Bobel profiles thirty natural mothers, probing into
their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming
to women's traditional role. Bobel's subjects say that they have
chosen to follow their nature rather than social imperatives.
Embracing such lifestyle alternatives as voluntary simplicity and
attachment parenting, they place family above status and personal
achievement. Bobel illuminates the paradoxes of natural mothering,
the ways in which these women resist the trappings of upward
mobility but acquiesce to a kind of biological determinism and
conventional gender scripts.
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