Title: Feminist mothering /
Authors: O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Motherhood.; Feminism.; Parenting.
Abstract: "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 childrens' lives - in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Professional women, timing, and reproductive strategies / Michele Pridmore-Brown -- "No, I'm not Catholic, and yes, they're all mine" : the narratives of feminist mothering on the tenure track / Kecia Driver McBride -- Feminism, motherhood, and possibilities in the writing of Bronwen Wallace / Shelley Martin -- Planned parenthood: the construction of motherhood in lesbian mother advice books / Kristin G. Esterberg -- The voice of the maternal in Louise Erdrich's fiction and memoirs / Aimee E. Berger -- African American mothers : victimized, vilified, and valorized / Shirley A. Hill -- Mothering as relational consciousness / Amber E. Kinser -- Feminist family values : parenting in third wave feminism and empowering all family members / Colleen Mack-Canty and Sue Marie Wright -- Feminist motherline : embodied knowledge/s of feminist mothering / Fiona Joy Green -- (Un)usual suspects : mothers, masculinities, monstrosities / Sarah Trimble -- "That is what feminism is : the acting and living and not just the told" : modeling and mentoring feminism / Andrea O'Reilly -- Rocking the boat : feminism and the ideological grounding of the twenty-first century mothers' movement / Judith Stadtman Tucker -- Women staging coups through mothering : depictions in Hispanic contemporary literature / Gisela Norat -- Maternal activism : how feminist is it? / Janice Nathanson -- Balancing act : discourses of feminism, motherhood and activism / Pegeen Reichert Powell.