04021nam 2200613Ia 450 991080835250332120240417035302.00-7914-8285-51-4237-4763-1(CKB)1000000000459172(SSID)ssj0000273091(PQKBManifestationID)11206607(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273091(PQKBWorkID)10313321(PQKB)11382706(MiAaPQ)EBC3407866(OCoLC)63148266(MdBmJHUP)muse6319(Au-PeEL)EBL3407866(CaPaEBR)ebr10579289(DE-B1597)683907(DE-B1597)9780791482858(EXLCZ)99100000000045917220041015d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWomen and children first[electronic resource] feminism, rhetoric, and public policy /edited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc2005vii, 263 pSUNY series in gender theoryBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6539-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women and Children First -- (Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions -- Homeland Security and the Co-optation of Feminist Discourse -- Unsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments: The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse around Cohabitation and Single-Motherhood -- Enemies of the State: Poor White Mothers and the Discourse of Universal Human Rights -- Medical Discourses and Social Ills -- Fixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex -- Social Melancholy, Shame, and Sublimation -- Subjects of Violence -- Predators and Protectors: The Rhetoric of School Violence -- Battered Woman Syndrome: Locating the Subject Amidst the Advocacy -- Mothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children -- Bad Mothers as “Brown” Mothers in Western Canadian Policy Discourse: Substance-Abusing Mothers and Sexually Exploited Girls -- Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal: Motherhood and Fetal Harm -- Protesting Mothers: Politics under the Sign of Motherhood -- (M)others, Biopolitics, and the Gulf War -- Love and Reason in the Public Sphere: Maternalist Civic Engagement and the Dilemma of Difference -- Contributors -- IndexThis diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good" from "bad" mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain.SUNY series in gender theory.Feminist theoryCanadaSocial policyUnited StatesSocial policy1993-Feminist theory.305.42/01DiQuinzio Patrice1955-1683128Meagher Sharon M1683129MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808352503321Women and children first4053710UNINA