The mother-blame game /
The mother-blame game /
edited by Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian.
- 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references.
Contextualizing the mother-blame game / Mothers, daughters, blame, and the body / Breastfeeding shame and the birth of the mother / Unfit mothers? Mother-blame and moral panic over "obesity" / Fated fate? Patriarchal ethics and reproductive politics in Southwest China / "I was the one who opened my legs": the tropes and consequences of blaming pregnant and mothering teens / "Because you had me as a teen": neoliberalism and the "problem" of teen pregnancy / From the court of law to the court of public opinion: the role of mother-blame in Canadian infanticide cases / "We want to consistently address their needs": explorations of the perceptions, experiences and challenges of parenting interventions for incarcerated mothers / Blaming the mother: the politics of gender in Cindy Sheehan's protest of the Iraq War / Tiger mothers and the birth of a new maternal epithet: a feminist critical discourse analysis of popular responses to Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother / "Because my mother was a liar and a whore": adulterous mothers and paternity uncertainty in Jo Nesbø's The Snowman / Lean in or leave before you leave? False dichotomies of choice and blame in public debates about working motherhood / Twice shamed and twice blamed: assumptions, myths, and stereotypes about "giving up a child" and "taking in a child" / What my Buddhist son taught me about blame / "Disabling" motherhood in 1914 and 2014: stories of two women / Loving Miss JBP: writing/art as mothering practice in a mother-blaming culture / Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian -- Tasha Muresan, Heather Reel, Marie Hansen, and Aurelie Athan -- Catherine Robinson -- Tracy Royce -- Fang-Tzu Yen -- Jenna Vinson and Sally Stevens -- Vanessa Reimer -- Kaley M. Ames -- Talia Esnard -- Linda Pershing -- Sarah Sahagian -- Berit Åström -- Jennifer L. Borda -- Lee Murray and Kerri Kearney -- Rosie Rosenzweig -- Alison Quaggin Harkin -- Lorinda Peterson. Introduction: Mother-blame and the body -- Blaming "othered" mothers -- Mother-blame in popular culture -- Sharing mother-blame stories: strategies for resistance --
"The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes "good motherhood" grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized-perhaps now more than ever-for all that is perceived to go "wrong" in their children's lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of "good motherhood""--
9781772580310 (electronic bk.) 1772580317 (electronic bk.) 9781772580334 (electronic bk.) 1772580333 (electronic bk.)
51BEFA98-B859-4392-A8A3-9E440EE3EFE9 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1rp8k79 JSTOR
2000-2099
Motherhood--21st century.
Mothers--Social conditions--21st century.
Blame--Social aspects--21st century.
Maternité--21e siècle.
Mères--Conditions sociales--21e siècle.
Blâme--Aspect social--21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Blame--Social aspects.
Motherhood.
Mothers--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HQ759 / .M68 2015eb
306.874/3
Includes bibliographical references.
Contextualizing the mother-blame game / Mothers, daughters, blame, and the body / Breastfeeding shame and the birth of the mother / Unfit mothers? Mother-blame and moral panic over "obesity" / Fated fate? Patriarchal ethics and reproductive politics in Southwest China / "I was the one who opened my legs": the tropes and consequences of blaming pregnant and mothering teens / "Because you had me as a teen": neoliberalism and the "problem" of teen pregnancy / From the court of law to the court of public opinion: the role of mother-blame in Canadian infanticide cases / "We want to consistently address their needs": explorations of the perceptions, experiences and challenges of parenting interventions for incarcerated mothers / Blaming the mother: the politics of gender in Cindy Sheehan's protest of the Iraq War / Tiger mothers and the birth of a new maternal epithet: a feminist critical discourse analysis of popular responses to Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother / "Because my mother was a liar and a whore": adulterous mothers and paternity uncertainty in Jo Nesbø's The Snowman / Lean in or leave before you leave? False dichotomies of choice and blame in public debates about working motherhood / Twice shamed and twice blamed: assumptions, myths, and stereotypes about "giving up a child" and "taking in a child" / What my Buddhist son taught me about blame / "Disabling" motherhood in 1914 and 2014: stories of two women / Loving Miss JBP: writing/art as mothering practice in a mother-blaming culture / Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian -- Tasha Muresan, Heather Reel, Marie Hansen, and Aurelie Athan -- Catherine Robinson -- Tracy Royce -- Fang-Tzu Yen -- Jenna Vinson and Sally Stevens -- Vanessa Reimer -- Kaley M. Ames -- Talia Esnard -- Linda Pershing -- Sarah Sahagian -- Berit Åström -- Jennifer L. Borda -- Lee Murray and Kerri Kearney -- Rosie Rosenzweig -- Alison Quaggin Harkin -- Lorinda Peterson. Introduction: Mother-blame and the body -- Blaming "othered" mothers -- Mother-blame in popular culture -- Sharing mother-blame stories: strategies for resistance --
"The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes "good motherhood" grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized-perhaps now more than ever-for all that is perceived to go "wrong" in their children's lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of "good motherhood""--
9781772580310 (electronic bk.) 1772580317 (electronic bk.) 9781772580334 (electronic bk.) 1772580333 (electronic bk.)
51BEFA98-B859-4392-A8A3-9E440EE3EFE9 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1rp8k79 JSTOR
2000-2099
Motherhood--21st century.
Mothers--Social conditions--21st century.
Blame--Social aspects--21st century.
Maternité--21e siècle.
Mères--Conditions sociales--21e siècle.
Blâme--Aspect social--21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Women's Studies.
Blame--Social aspects.
Motherhood.
Mothers--Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HQ759 / .M68 2015eb
306.874/3