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Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience
the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the
uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of
socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may
feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst experiencing a
backlash and a lack of sup- port, while some parents may attempt to
resist the binaries of mothering and fathering in their feminist
parenting journey. Feminist parents may attempt to resist gender
binaries; they may submit to them while attempting to foster
critical dialogue; they may struggle with the display of their own
femininity and masculinity or, for some, its perceived lack. This
book attempts to cast a lens on the messy and convoluted ways that
feminist parents approach parenting their children in gender aware
and gender fluid ways.
This collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be
shaped by, and interconnected with, how mothers realize feminism
and/or become feminists. Experiences of motherhood can involve
unique discriminations and oppressions, as well as new challenges
and possibilities. What may have been overlooked, tolerated, or
perhaps even gone unnoticed before becoming a mother, can become
overtly apparent or even unavoidable afterwards. Becoming a mother
may also lead to a questioning of current feminist priorities and
practices, and a recognition of the need for, or even demand for, a
mother-centred mode of feminism. This anthology, separated into
three sections - ' Losing and Finding, ' ' Challenging and
Critiquing, ' and, ' Connecting and Conversing' - provides
intersectionally sensitive and broad-ranging interdisciplinary
insights into mothers' perceptions of, connection to, and
realizations of, feminism. International contributors examine this
complex topic through a wide variety of texts including personal
and scholarly essays, creative non-fiction, letters and Q and A
style discussion, poetry, art, and photography.
Parenting/Internet/Kids, with three key terms slashed together,
conveys the idea that the practice of parenting may extend both to
the Internet and to our children--to the extent that both require
attention, care, and forms of regulation, and, in turn, provide
support and enjoyment. While the triadic title is somewhat playful,
it also strikes a serious note and introduces layered
possibilities: we are not simply raising children who have grown up
in the internet age, but also Domesticating Technologies by
"managing" the computer (relatively young in age, too, having
established itself in homes in the 1980s). Including perspectives
from scholars and parents living in Australia, Canada, India,
Japan, the UK, and the USA, the collection examines how the
intimate presence of computer technology in our homes and on our
bodies affects not only mothers and parenting, but family life more
broadly.
Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and
Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care.
The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to
collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and
theoretical definitions of care, it is dangerously co-opted into
naturalized discourses, which limit particular identities and
negate certain forms of care. The perspectives curated in Essential
Breakthroughs illuminate how care, as a respected and productive
cultural ethic, is neither inherent nor instinctual for any human,
but is learned and fostered. The chapters are informed by feminist,
queer, and trans politics, wielding post-structuralist
methodologies of unlearning and deconstruction, while maintaining
the maternal lens as a credible feminist analytical tool and not as
a gender-essentialist practice.
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