Paradox Of Natural Mothering
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2001
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-56639-906-7 (ISBN)
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
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Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. This title profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role.
Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their children seem to be making a radical lifestyle choice. Indeed, the women at the center of The Paradox of Natural Mothering have renounced consumerism and careerism in order to reclaim home and family. These natural mothers favor parenting practices that set them apart from the mainstream: home birth, extended breast feeding, home schooling and natural health care. Regarding themselves as part of a movement, natural mothers believe they are changing society one child, one family at a time.Author Chris Bobel profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role. Bobel's subjects say that they have chosen to follow their nature rather than social imperatives. Embracing such lifestyle alternatives as voluntary simplicity and attachment parenting, they place family above status and personal achievement. Bobel illuminates the paradoxes of natural mothering, the ways in which these women resist the trappings of upward mobility but acquiesce to a kind of biological determinism and conventional gender scripts.
Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their children seem to be making a radical lifestyle choice. Indeed, the women at the center of The Paradox of Natural Mothering have renounced consumerism and careerism in order to reclaim home and family. These natural mothers favor parenting practices that set them apart from the mainstream: home birth, extended breast feeding, home schooling and natural health care. Regarding themselves as part of a movement, natural mothers believe they are changing society one child, one family at a time.Author Chris Bobel profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role. Bobel's subjects say that they have chosen to follow their nature rather than social imperatives. Embracing such lifestyle alternatives as voluntary simplicity and attachment parenting, they place family above status and personal achievement. Bobel illuminates the paradoxes of natural mothering, the ways in which these women resist the trappings of upward mobility but acquiesce to a kind of biological determinism and conventional gender scripts.
Chris Bobel is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Five Women, Five Stories
2. Female Moral Reform and the Maternal Politics of Accommodation
3. A Closer Look: The Ideological Components of Natural Mothering
4. Interrogating the Ideology of Natural Mothering: Choice, Nature, and Inevitability
5. Resisting Culture, Embracing Nature; Natural Mothering and Control
6. Natural Mothering: Social Change or Narcissistic Retreat?
7. Conclusion
Appendix: On Being a (Quasi) Natural Mother Studying Natural Mothers
Notes
References
Index
Verlagsort | Philadelphia PA |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-56639-906-8 / 1566399068 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-56639-906-7 / 9781566399067 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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