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Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and
mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic
disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at
how exploring mothering rhetorics - the rhetorics of reproduction
(rhetorics about the reproductive function of women/mothers) and
reproducing rhetorics (the rhetorical reproduction of ideological
systems and logics of contemporary culture) expand our
understanding of mothering, motherhood, communication, and gender.
Mothering Rhetorics begins to fill this gap for scholars and
teachers interested in the study of mothering rhetorics in their
historical and contemporary permutations. The contributions explore
the racialized rhetorical contexts of maternity; how fixing food is
thought to fix families, while also regulating maternal activities
and identity; how Black female breastfeeding activists resisted the
exploitation of African-American mothers in Detroit; how women in
pink-collar occupations both adhere to and challenge maternity
leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time
off and (dis)ability; identifying verbal and nonverbal shaming
practices related to unwed motherhood during the mid-twentieth
century; and redefining alternative postpartum placenta practices.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's
Studies in Communication.
Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge
Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current
intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a
foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of
Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge
Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging
topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual
work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a
range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology,
literature, communication studies, sociology, women's and gender
studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the
foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the
diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue
among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds
and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text
for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary
researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly
growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy,
and activists in both university and workplace settings interested
in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide.
Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and
mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic
disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at
how exploring mothering rhetorics - the rhetorics of reproduction
(rhetorics about the reproductive function of women/mothers) and
reproducing rhetorics (the rhetorical reproduction of ideological
systems and logics of contemporary culture) expand our
understanding of mothering, motherhood, communication, and gender.
Mothering Rhetorics begins to fill this gap for scholars and
teachers interested in the study of mothering rhetorics in their
historical and contemporary permutations. The contributions explore
the racialized rhetorical contexts of maternity; how fixing food is
thought to fix families, while also regulating maternal activities
and identity; how Black female breastfeeding activists resisted the
exploitation of African-American mothers in Detroit; how women in
pink-collar occupations both adhere to and challenge maternity
leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time
off and (dis)ability; identifying verbal and nonverbal shaming
practices related to unwed motherhood during the mid-twentieth
century; and redefining alternative postpartum placenta practices.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Women's
Studies in Communication.
Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge
Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current
intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a
foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of
Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge
Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging
topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual
work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a
range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology,
literature, communication studies, sociology, women's and gender
studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the
foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the
diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue
among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds
and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text
for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary
researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly
growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy,
and activists in both university and workplace settings interested
in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide.
This interdisciplinary volume opens an innovative space for
critical discussion, and production of new imaginaries within,
feminist scholarship, analysis and feminist politics, about what is
and has been meant by, involved in, required of, and what it means
to be, a "wife." Contributions within this volume together
critically explore and tease out, intersections, overlaps, and
distinctions between the social categories of wife and mother, and
the link, and separate, labours of wife-work and maternal
caregiving labour. This volume brings together diverse critical
perspectives through creative contributions, personal narratives,
and scholarly works. Chapters discuss critical theorizing about
roles, representations, identities, and work associated with being
a "wife."
Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in
the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive
decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women
living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their
control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations
into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity
both within and in light of these late-twentieth century
understandings. Employing a variety of feminist communication
approaches, the volume's contributors discuss how discourses of
choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences
as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect
private practices and public policies related to reproduction and
motherhood. Through this process, the contributors illustrate a
variety of ways of conducting feminist thinking, research, and
practices within the communication discipline. Major
sub-disciplines within communication studies are represented here
including feminist organizational, interpersonal, rhetorical,
critical/cultural, and social movement studies. Whereas many of the
previous scholarly investigations into maternity highlight only one
aspect or phase of motherhood, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of
Choice is unique because it investigates discourses of choice
across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various
(non)maternal subject positions.
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