There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of
maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a
whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become
so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing
unease with maternal forms of subjectivity and maternalist
perspectives. In moving beyond policy definitions, which emphasize
the priority given to women's claims as employees over their
political claims as mothers, Stephens details an elaborate process
of cultural forgetting that has accompanied this repudiation of the
maternal.
Reclaiming an alternative feminist position through an
investigation of oral history, life narratives, Web blogs, and
other rich and varied sources, Stephens confronts the core claims
of postmaternal thought and challenges dominant representations of
feminism as having forgotten motherhood. Deploying the interpretive
framework of memory studies, she examines the political structures
of forgetting surrounding the maternal and the weakening of nurture
and care in the public domain. She views the promotion of an
illusory, self-sufficient individualism as a form of social
unmothering that is profoundly connected to this ethos. In
rejecting both traditional maternalism and the new postmaternalism,
Stephens challenges prevailing paradigms and makes way for an
alternative feminist maternalism centering on a politics of
care.
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