Loreen N. Olson, Jenni M. Simon

An Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America

Disciplining the Maternal Body

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the breast-is-best discursive formation of hegemonic motherhood that limits possibilities and polices parents. Scholars of feminism, motherhood, gender, and discursive and/or narrative methodologies will find this book useful in exploring the complex systems that control the meanings of motherhood, family, and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781498531290
• ISBN-10: 1498531296
• Artikelnr.: 57837792

Autorenporträt

Loreen Olson is professor of communication at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Jenni Simon is lecturer at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Discourse, Ideology, and Breastfeeding: The Breast-is-Best
Discursive Formation and the Construction of Hegemonic Mothering Chapter 2:
Building the Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation: A Genealogy of Hegemonic
Motherhood Chapter 3: Creating the Gaze: The Birth of the
Medi-Institutionalization of Breastfeeding Chapter 4: Disciplining the
Maternal Body: Discourses for Expecting Moms Chapter 5: Disciplining the
Marginalized Maternal Body: Discourses of Race, Class, and Privilege
Chapter 6: Talking Back: The Discourses of Lived Experience Chapter 7:
Talking Back and Taking Back: Discourses of Resistance and Change