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Contemplating maternity in an era of choice
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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The Routledge companion to motherhood
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Silences and Choice: The Legacies of White Second Wave Feminism in the New Professoriate
[...] feminist scholars Douglas and Michaels; Hays; O'Brien Hallstein, \"Conceiving\"; O'Reilly agree that, because it exhausts women and supports contemporary professional organizing systems that continue to arrange work-life structures around the ideal worker unencumbered by family commitments, intensive mothering plays a key ideological role in discouraging women's participation in the public, professional realm. [...] the work of contemporary Black feminist scholars (Collins; James; Thomas) makes it clear that the intensive ideology is based on a racial hierarchy that privileges white women and devalues and sanctions black women's othermothering and community mothering practices.2 What my argument suggests, however, is that understanding fully the problems of intensive mothering also requires understanding how white second wave feminism's silence on motherhood and the focus on choice now play a part in cutting off systematic responsibility and change and thus inadvertently support rather than challenge intensive mothering.3 It is important for me to make clear, however, that I make these arguments as a woman who still primarily identifies with many secondwave sensibilities.
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The Intriguing History and Silences of Of Woman Born: Rereading Adrienne Rich Rhetorically to Better Understand the Contemporary Context
Adrienne Rich's text Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1986) is a canonical text in Women's Studies generally and specifically for contemporary feminist maternal scholars. From its inception to the present day, both the response to and use of Of Woman Born have been intriguing and permeated by different kinds of silences about mothering. Rereading Of Woman Born within its larger historical situation and within the white second-wave's relationship to motherhood reveals, externally, that the text was situated within a demonizing discourse that positioned the book as \"anti-motherhood,\" and, internally, that the text emerged from within a sisterly feminist subject-position that was founded on \"matrophobia\" —the fear of becoming like our mothers. Both the external demonization and the internal matrophobia begin to explain both the intriguing history and curious silences on mothering.Thus, contemporary feminist maternal scholars must understand our past and present use of Rich's text to conceive a feminist subject-position that accounts for and anticipates the ongoing external and internal rhetorical situations of contemporary culture and, finally, purges past and lingering matrophobia.
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Where Standpoint Stands Now: An Introduction and Commentary
In other words, the difference between a standpoint and a perspective is both political and foundational: unlike a perspective, a standpoint is a political achievement and the theoretical understandings that constitute the concept of a standpoint serve as the foundation for recognizing differences among women. [...]recognizing and employing precision when we research women's perspectives is essential to gathering accurate information about what might develop into a standpoint and to recognize the differences among women. [...]feminist standpoint theory is in the forefront of defining what will be the heart and soul of feminism in the future. Because the essays that follow are pushing feminist standpoint theory to the realm of practice and teaching us both the benefits and primary risk involved in doing so, they are also contributing important insights into what might constitute this heart and soul. [...]like others, I do so with reservations. 2Obviously feminist standpoint theory did not address explicitly the commonalitydiversity debate in its early stages; 1 am imposing a way of viewing that is post-hoc. Because of its historical development, however, it is an appropriate reading of the larger issues that have become central to understanding where feminist standpoint theory is now. 3Clearly a broad overview of the tenets cannot provide a detailed discussion of all the theoretical debates associated with feminist standpoint theory. What I present here, then, is my current understanding of it. 5It is important to note that Handing (1991) also has shifted to focusing on difference, although she took a different approach to doing so. Because she argues that gender is a relational category and a structural positioning in standpoint theory, she suggests that there are no such persons as women or men per se; \"there are only women and men in particular, historically located race and class and cultural relations\" (Handing, 1991, p. 179).
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A postmodern caring: Feminist standpoint theories, revisioned caring, and communication ethics
Many communication ethicists have made the postmodern turn toward recognizing and incorporating diversity and difference in morals and reasoning. Although the core theoretical tenets of postmodern theory offer communication ethicists exciting ground, adopting any postmodern theory, whether extreme or moderate, ultimately challenges core prerequisites of communication ethics: The assumptions that there is some common ground from which diverse subjects can draw upon when communicating and reasoning with one another, and the view that subjects have agency and, as a consequence, accountability. In this essay, I suggest that a fully elaborated view of feminist standpoint theories provides a basis for a feminist ethics that both respects diversity and values care, such that a \"revisioned\" ethic of care is possible-a postmodern caring-that offers some possibility for diverse people, who have interpretive capabilities and intentionality, to deliberate together across their differences, make choices, and be held accountable for those choices in moral reasoning. I conclude the essay by suggesting that the postmodern orientation entailed in revisioned caring transforms modern theoretical thinking in ways that make it uniquely qualified to attend to and challenge the conflicting and contradictory demands of our current epoch.
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Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context
Contributors detail what it means to be an academic mother and to think about academic motherhood, while also exploring both the personal and specific institutional challenges academic women face, the multifaceted strategies different academic women are implementing to manage those challenges, and investigating different theoretical possibilities for how we think about academic motherhood.
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Placing Sex/Gender at the Forefront
Over the past several decades, scholars in communication studies have incorporated intersectional thinking into our work. Stemming from feminist theorizing, intersectional thinking involves attending to the multiple and intersecting axes of power that form identities and upon which instances of oppression and resistance are enacted. As feminist rhetorical scholars, we are intrigued by and committed to participating in efforts to engage in intersectional work. At the same time, however, our commitment to feminism specifically—the exploration of sex/gender and the eradication of barriers to women’s agency—means that our efforts to engage in intersectional work are coupled with a commitment
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