Meagher / DiQuinzio Women and Children First

Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8285-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Gender Theory

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meagher, Sharon M.

DiQuinzio, Patrice

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Women and Children First

Patrice DiQuinzio and Sharon M. Meagher
PART I: (Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions
2. Homeland Security and the Co-optation of Feminist Discourse

Elizabeth F. Randol
3. Unsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments: The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse Around Cohabitation and Single-Motherhood

Kirsten Isgro
4. Enemies of the State: Poor White Mothers and the Discourse of Universal Human Rights

Jennifer A. Reich
PART II: Medical Discourses and Social Ills
5. Fixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex

Ellen K. Feder
6. Social Melancholy, Shame, and Sublimation

Kelly Oliver
PART III: Subjects of Violence
7. Predators and Protectors: The Rhetoric of School Violence

Sharon M. Meagher
8. Battered Woman Syndrome: Locating the Subject Amidst the Advocacy

Sally J. Scholz
PART IV: Mothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children
9. Bad Mothers as "Brown" Mothers in Western Canadian Policy Discourse: Substance-Abusing Mothers and Sexually Exploited Girls
Norma L. Buydens
10. Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal: Motherhood and Fetal Harm

Tricha Shivas and Sonya Charles
PART V: Protesting Mothers: Politics Under the Sign of Motherhood
11. (M)others, Biopolitics, and the Gulf War

Tina Managhan
12. Love and Reason in the Public Sphere: Maternalist Civic Engagement and the Dilemma of Difference

Patrice DiQuinzio
List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon M. Meagher is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Scranton. Patrice DiQuinzio is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College. She is the author of The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism, and the Problem of Mothering and coeditor (with Iris Marion Young) of Feminist Ethics and Social Policy.