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Confronting Postmaternal Thinking
- Feminism, Memory, and Care
Engelsk Paperback
Confronting Postmaternal Thinking
- Feminism, Memory, and Care
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9780231149211
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0231149212
Udg. Dato:
20 mar 2012
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
142mm
Højde:
208mm
Forlag:
Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 mar 2012
Forfatter(e):
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