Contemplating Maternity explore how discourses of choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect private practices and public policies related to reproduction and motherhood. This volume is uni...
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Contemplating Maternity explore how discourses of choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect private practices and public policies related to reproduction and motherhood. This volume is uni...
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. 344 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010006397 Type of material Book Main title Contemplating maternity in an era of choice: explorations into discourses of reproduction / edited by Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein. Published/Created Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010. Description xxxix, 344 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780739138908 (cloth: alk. paper) 0739138901 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification HQ759. C7257 2010 Related names Hayden, Sara E., 1963-Hallstein, D. Lynn O'Brien. Contents Public choices, private control: how mediated mom labels work rhetorically to dismantle the politics of choice and white second wave feminist successes / D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein--No exception postprevention: "differential biopolitics" on the morning after / Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz--Politicizing personal choices? The storying of age-related infertility in public discourses / Jennifer J. Bute...[et al. ]--Reproductive freedom: transforming discourses of choice / Catherine H. Palczewski--The commodification of motherhood: surrogacy as a matter of choice / Charlotte Kroløkke, Karen A. Foss, and Jennifer Sandoval--Law, politics, and reproductive choices / Jennifer Emerling Bone and Beth Meyers-Bass--My eyes cry without me: illusions of choice in the transition to motherhood / Elissa Foster--Two women, two stories: complicating our "right to choose" / Summer R. Cunningham and Amy R. Pearson--The in/fertile, un/natural body: ecofeminism, dis/embodiment, technology, and (the loss of) choice / Tracy Marafiote--The invisible politics of "choice" in the workplace: naming the informal parenting support system / Julia T. Wood and Bonnie J. Dow--Cutting the meeting short: conflicting narrative choices in one woman's maternity leave / Lori West Peterson--Total motherhood and having it all: reproduction, maternity, and discourses of choice among female police officers / Jaime E. Bochantin and Renee L. Cowan--Purposefully childless good women / Sara Hayden--What men say about women: fathers contemplate work-family choices and motherhood / Patrice M. Buzzanell, Suzy D'Enbeau, and John Duckworth--Outlaw mothers raising gentle-men: choosing to disrupt hegemonic tensions between masculinity and feminism / Cindy Griffin and Kirsten J. Broadfoot. LC Subjects Motherhood. Reproductive rights. Maternity leave--Law and legislation. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 306.874/301 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn557400716
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