Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women’s empowerment and social change. The contributors see ‘feminist mothering’ as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of patriarchal motherhood that are limiting and oppressive to women. For many women, practicing feminist mothering offers a way to disrupt the transmission of sexist and patriarchal values from generation to generation. Contributors explore the ways in which women integrate activism, paid employment, nonsexist childrearing practices, and non-child-centered interests in their lives—and other caregivers into their children’s lives—in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Andrea O’Reilly
Introduction
Andrea O’Reilly
I. MOTHERHOOD
1. Professional Women, Timing, and Reproductive Strategies
Michele Y. Pridmore-Brown
2. “No, I’m Not Catholic, and Yes, They’re All Mine:” The Narratives of Feminist Mothering on the Tenure Track
Kecia Driver Mc Bride
3. Feminism, Motherhood, and Possibilities in the Writing of Bronwen Wallace
Shelley Martin
II. FAMILY
4. Planned Parenthood: The Construction of Motherhood in Lesbian Mother Advice Books
Kristin G. Esterberg
5. The Voice of the Maternal in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction and Memoirs
Aimee E. Berger
6. African American Mothers: Victimized, Vilified, and Valorized
Shirley A. Hill
7. Mothering as Relational Consciousness
Amber E. Kinser
III. CHILDREARING
8. Feminist Family Values: Parenting in Third Wave Feminism and Empowering All Family Members
Colleen Mack-Canty and Sue Marie Wright
9. Feminist Motherline: Embodied Knowledge/s of Feminist Mothering
Fiona Joy Green
10. (Un)usual Suspects: Mothers, Masculinities, Monstrosities
Sarah Trimble
11. “That Is What Feminism Is—The Acting and Living and Not Just the Told”: Modeling and Mentoring Feminism
Andrea O’Reilly
IV. ACTIVISM
12. Rocking the Boat: Feminism and the Ideological Grounding of the Twenty-First Century Mothers’ Movement
Judith Stadtman Tucker
13. Women Staging Coups through Mothering: Depictions in Hispanic Contemporary Literature
Gisela Norat
14. Maternal Activism: How Feminist Is It?
Janice Nathanson
15. Balancing Act: Discourses of Feminism, Motherhood and Activism
Pegeen Reichert Powell
List of Contributors
Index
Despre autor
Andrea O’Reilly is Associate Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University and Director of the Association for Research on Mothering. She is the author and editor of many books on mothering, including
From Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born and
Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart, both also published by SUNY Press.
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