Contemporary maternity in an era of choice
Subtitle: explorations into discourses of reproduction
By: edited by Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein.
Contributors: Hayden, Sara, 1963-; Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780739138908; 9780739138922
Subjects: Motherhood; Reproductive rights; Maternity leave -- Law and legislation
Description: 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. This book is unique because it investigates discourses of choice across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various (non)maternal subject positions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public choices, private control : how mediated mom labels work rhetorically to dismantle the politics of choice and white second wave feminist successes / D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein; title: No exception post-prevention : "differential biopolitics" on the morning after / Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz; title: Politicizing personal choices? : the storying of age-related infertility in public discourses / Jennifer J. Bute, Lynn M. Harter, Erika L. Kirby, and Marie Thompson; title: Reproductive freedom transforming discourses of choice / Catherine H. Palczewski; title: The commodification of motherhood : surrogacy as a matter of choice / Charlotte Kroløkke, Karen A. Foss, and Jennifer Sandoval; title: Law, politics, and reproductive choices / Jennifer Emerling Bone and Beth Meyers-Bass; title: My eyes cry without me : illusions of choice in the transition to motherhood / Elissa Foster; title: Women, two stories : complicating our "right to choose" / Summer R. Cunningham and Amy R. Pearson; title: The in/fertile, un/natural body : ecofeminism, dis/embodiment, technology, and (the loss of) choice / Tracy Marafiote; title: The invisible politics of "choice" in the workplace : naming the informal parenting support system / Julia T. Wood and Bonnie J. Dow; title: Cutting the meeting short : conflicting narrative choices in one woman's maternity leave / Lori West Peterson; title: Total motherhood and having it all : reproduction, maternity, and discourses of choice among female police officers / Jaime E. Bochantin and Renee L. Cowan; title: Purposefully childless good women / Sara Hayden; title: What men say about women : fathers contemplate work family choices and motherhood / Patrice Buzzanell, Suzy D'Enbeau, and John Duckworth; title: Outlaw mothers raising gentle-men : choosing to disrupt hegemonic tensions between masculinity and feminism / Cindy Griffin and Kirsten J. Broadfoot.