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Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in this book provide valuable insights concerning not only how memories may be seen (or sighted) in visual form but also how visual forms constitute noteworthy material sites of memory. The collection addresses this central theme with a wealth of interdisciplinary and international approaches, featuring conventional scholarly as well as artistic works from such disciplines as rhetoric and communication, art and art history, architecture, landscape studies, and more, by contributors from around the globe.
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The Motherhood Business
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten
original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood
industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the
emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the
collection considers how different forms of privilege (class,
race, and nationality) inform discourses about mothering,
consumption, mobility, and leisure.
The Motherhood Business follows the harried
mother’s path into the anxious maelstrom of intelligent
toys, healthy foods and meals, and educational choices. It also
traces how some enterprising mothers leverage cultural capital
and rhetorical vision to create thriving baby- and child-based
businesses of their own, as evidenced by the rise of mommy
bloggers and “mompreneurs”over the last decade.
Starting with the rapidly expanding global fertility market,
The Motherhood Business explores the intersection of
motherhood, consumption, and privilege in the context of
fertility tourism, international adoption, and transnational
surrogacy. The synergy between motherhood and the marketplace
demonstrated across the essays affirms the stronghold of
“intensive mothering ideology” in decisions over what
mothers buy and how they brand their businesses even as that
ideology evolves. Across diverse contexts, the volume also
identifies how different forms or privilege shape how mothers
construct their identities through their consumption and
entrepreneurship. Although social observers have long commented
on the link between motherhood and consumerism, little has been
written within the field of rhetoric. Penetrating and
interdisciplinary,
The Motherhood Business illuminates how consumer culture
not only shapes contemporary motherhood but also changes in
response to mothers who constitute a driving force of the
economy.
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