Single motherhood, a new family form, demonstrates an accomplishment of paradoxical synergies between 2nd wave feminism and neoliberalism. Single Mother by Choice chronicles the journey of Ann, a 41-year-old woman throughout her intensive mothering of three donor-conceived children from infancy to tween years. The Christian Right's embrace of neoliberalism provided a permission structure for this and other emerging families, while simultaneously influencing progressive parents with trickle down neoliberal values that weaken the moral architecture of childhood and the nation. This fine-grained analysis of one family's life illuminates the complexities of twenty-first century, middle-class American motherhood, whether single or not.
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Single Mother by Choice
A Story of Politics and Parenting in Twenty-first Century Middle America
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Single Mother by Choice
A Story of Politics and Parenting in Twenty-first Century Middle America
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Studying My Friend: A Single Mother by Choice
- Chapter 1 — A Changed American Landscape: Fertile Ground for SMCs
- Chapter 2 — Intensive Parenting Alone
- Chapter 3 — “I Have a Fear of Really Screwing It Up”: Intensive Mothering in an Age of Anxiety
- Chapter 4 — Sketching a Changing Landscape of Intimacy: Gender Equality and Parenthood
- Chapter 5 — Free from the Bonds of Heteronnormativity: Spatial Dynamism and Creative Exuberance in Family Homemaking
- Chapter 6 —“What Kind of a Family Do We Want to Be?”: Trickle-Down Neoliberal Values
- Chapter 7 — The Legacy of a Hybrid Habitus: Navigating the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Consumer Culture
- Conclusion — Anthropology of the Contemporary: The Complex, Often Paradoxical Influence of Neoliberalism on Parenting
- Afterword — Anthropology of the Near Future: Trump 2.0, A New Context for SMCs
- References
- Index
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