The Mother Blame Game
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The Mother Blame Game

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The Mother Blame Game

About this book

The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes "good motherhood" grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatized—perhaps now more than ever—for all that is perceived to go "wrong" in their children's lives. This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of "good motherhood."

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Information

Publisher
Demeter Press
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781772580334
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. The Mother-Blame Game
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction Contextualizing The Mother-Blame Game VANESSA REIMER AND SARAH SAHAGIAN
  8. I. Mother-Blame and the Body
  9. 1. Mothers, Daughters, Blame and the Body TASHA MURESAN, HEATHER REEL, MARIE HANSEN AND AURÉLIE ATHAN
  10. 2. Breastfeeding Shame and the Birth of the Mother CATHERINE ROBINSON
  11. 3. Unfit Mothers? Mother-Blame and the Moral Panic over “Obesity” TRACY ROYCE
  12. II. Blaming “Othered” Mothers
  13. 4. Fated Fate? Patriarchal Ethics and Reproductive Politics in Southwest China FANG-TZU YEN
  14. 5. “I Was the One Who Opened My Legs” The Tropes and Consequences of Blaming Pregnant and Mothering Teens JENNA VINSON AND SALLY STEVENS
  15. 6. “Because You Had Me as a Teen” Neoliberalism and the “Problem” of Teen Pregnancy VANESSA REIMER
  16. 7. From the Court of Law to the Court of Public Opinion The Role of Mother-Blame in Canadian Infanticide Cases KALEY M. AMES
  17. 8. “We Want to Consistently Address Their Needs” Explorations of the Perceptions, Experiences and Challgenges of Parenting Interventions for Incarcerated Mothers TALIA ESNARD
  18. III. Mother-Blame in Popular Culture
  19. 9. Blaming the Mother The Politics of Gender in Cindy Sheehan’s Protest of the Iraq War LINDA PERSHING
  20. 10. Tiger Mothers and the Birth of a New Maternal Epithet A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Popular Responses to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother SARAH SAHAGIAN
  21. 11. “Because My Mother Was a Liar and a Whore” Adulterous Mothers and Paternity Uncertainty in Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman BERIT ÅSTRÖM
  22. 12. Lean In or Leave Before You Leave? False Dichotomies of Choice and Blame in Public Debates about Working Motherhood JENNIFER L. BORDA
  23. IV. Sharing Mother-Blame Stories: Strategies for Resistance
  24. 13. Twice Shamed and Twice Blamed Assumptions, Myths and Stereotypes about “Giving Up a Child” and “Taking In a Child” LEE MURRAY AND KERRI KEARNEY
  25. 14. What My Buddhist Son Taught Me About Blame ROSIE ROSENZWEIG
  26. 15. “Disabling” Motherhood in 1914 and 2014 Stories of Two Women ALISON QUAGGIN HARKIN
  27. 16. Loving Miss JBP Writing/Art as Mothering Practice in a Mother-Blaming Culture LORINDA PETERSON
  28. Contributor Notes