Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy / / edited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 263 p
• Disciplina: 305.42/01
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Social policy; United States Social policy 1993-
• Altri autori: DiQuinzioPatrice <1955-> MeagherSharon M
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and children first
• ISBN: 0-7914-8285-5; 1-4237-4763-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808352503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in gender theory.