LEADER 04021nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910808352503321 005 20240417035302.0 010 $a0-7914-8285-5 010 $a1-4237-4763-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459172 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206607 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10313321 035 $a(PQKB)11382706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407866 035 $a(OCoLC)63148266 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6319 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407866 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579289 035 $a(DE-B1597)683907 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791482858 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459172 100 $a20041015d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen and children first$b[electronic resource] $efeminism, rhetoric, and public policy /$fedited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2005 215 $avii, 263 p 225 1 $aSUNY series in gender theory 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-6539-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Women and Children First -- $t(Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions -- $tHomeland Security and the Co-optation of Feminist Discourse -- $tUnsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments: The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse around Cohabitation and Single-Motherhood -- $tEnemies of the State: Poor White Mothers and the Discourse of Universal Human Rights -- $tMedical Discourses and Social Ills -- $tFixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex -- $tSocial Melancholy, Shame, and Sublimation -- $tSubjects of Violence -- $tPredators and Protectors: The Rhetoric of School Violence -- $tBattered Woman Syndrome: Locating the Subject Amidst the Advocacy -- $tMothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children -- $tBad Mothers as ?Brown? Mothers in Western Canadian Policy Discourse: Substance-Abusing Mothers and Sexually Exploited Girls -- $tBehind Bars or Up on a Pedestal: Motherhood and Fetal Harm -- $tProtesting Mothers: Politics under the Sign of Motherhood -- $t(M)others, Biopolitics, and the Gulf War -- $tLove and Reason in the Public Sphere: Maternalist Civic Engagement and the Dilemma of Difference -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aThis diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good" from "bad" mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain. 410 0$aSUNY series in gender theory. 606 $aFeminist theory 607 $aCanada$xSocial policy 607 $aUnited States$xSocial policy$y1993- 615 0$aFeminist theory. 676 $a305.42/01 701 $aDiQuinzio$b Patrice$f1955-$01683128 701 $aMeagher$b Sharon M$01683129 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808352503321 996 $aWomen and children first$94053710 997 $aUNINA