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Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities - Rewriting the Sexual Contract (Hardcover)
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Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities - Rewriting the Sexual Contract (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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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.
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