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Autore |
Stephens Julie <1956-> |
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Titolo |
Confronting postmaternal thinking [[electronic resource] ] : feminism, memory, and care / / Julie Stephens |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-59959-6 |
9786613629432 |
0-231-52056-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminist theory |
Motherhood - Social aspects |
Motherhood - Political aspects |
Collective memory |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Unmothering -- Feminist reminiscence -- Memory and modernity -- Maternalism reconfigured? -- Conclusion: toward a new feminist maternalism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity and maternalist perspectives. In moving beyond policy definitions, which emphasize the priority given to women's claims as employees over their political claims as mothers, Stephens details an elaborate process of cultural forgetting that has accompanied this repudiation of the maternal.Reclaiming an alternative feminist position through an investigation of oral history, life narratives, Web blogs, and other rich and varied sources, Stephens confronts the core claims of postmaternal thought and challenges dominant representations of feminism as having forgotten motherhood. Deploying the interpretive framework of memory studies, she examines the political structures of forgetting |
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