Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice

Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction
Herausgeber: Hayden, Sara; O'Brien Hallstein

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contemplating Maternity explore 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 volume is unique because it investigates discourses of choice across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various (non)maternal subject positions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780739138908
• ISBN-10: 0739138901
• Artikelnr.: 29372706

Autorenporträt

Edited by Sara Hayden and Lynn O'Brien Hallstein - Contributions by Jaime E. Bochantin; Kirsten J. Broadfoot; Jennifer J. Bute; Patrice Buzzanell; Renee L. Cowan; Summer R. Cunningham; Suzy D'Enbeau; Bonnie J. Dow; John Duckworth; Jennifer Emerling Bone;

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3
Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work
Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave
Feminist Successes Chapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention:
"Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning After Chapter 5 Chapter Three:
Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in
Public Discourses Part 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public Sphere Chapter 7
Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of Choice
Chapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a
Matter of Choice Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive
Choices Part 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and Choice Chapter 11 Chapter
Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to
Motherhood Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating
Our "Right to Choose" Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: The In/Fertile, Un/Natural
Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) Choice
Part 14 Section Four: Working with Choice Chapter 15 Chapter Ten: The
Invisible Politics of 'Choice' in the Workplace: Naming the Informal
Parenting Support System Chapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Cutting the Meeting
Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity Leave Chapter
17 Chapter Twelve: Total Motherhood and Having it All: Reproduction,
Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police Officers Part 18
Section Five: Ongoing Choices Chapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Purposefully
Childless Good Women Chapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: What Men Say About Women:
Fathers Contemplate Work Family Choices and Motherhood Chapter 21 Chapter
Fifteen: Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic
Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism