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"This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood. This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism and motherhood studies, and the chapters challenge the confines of biological parenting as heteronormative within the neo-liberal nuclear family. The contributors examine, how despite the diversity of parental relationships, many are excluded by the understanding of mothers biologically tied to their children. The volume seeks to expose the underpinnings of biological primacy and argues that twenty-first century families and familial circumstances are ill-served by biological ideology. Topics include: Re-Imagining Queer Black Motherhood, Chicana Feminist approaches to reproductive justice, the commercialization and medicalization of infertility, and ableism and motherhood. This is a unique and fascinating book suitable for students and scholars in gender studies, sexuality studies, communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies"--Provided by publisher.

Mothers. --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Motherhood --- Pregnant women --- Social aspects. --- Maternity --- Mothers --- Parenthood

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Feminist theories have focused on contemporary, Western, middle-class experiences of maternity. This 1998 volume brings other mothers, from Asia and the Pacific, into scholarly view, aiming to show that birthing and mothering can be a very different experience for women in other parts of the world. The contributors document a wide variety of conceptions of motherhood, and drawing on ethnographic and historical research, they explore the relationships between motherhood as embodied experience and the local discourses on maternity. They show how the experience of motherhood has been influenced by missionaries, by colonial policies and by the introduction of Western medicine and biomedical birthing methods, and raise important questions about the costs and benefits of becoming a modern mother in these societies.

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Motherhood --- Mothers --- Maternité --- Mères --- History --- Histoire --- Motherhood. --- Mothers. --- Mutter. --- Römer. --- History. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire). --- Griechenland (Altertum) --- Griechenland (Altertum). --- Maternité --- Mères --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Pregnant women --- Maternity --- Parenthood

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Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must tightly manage their daily schedules to avoid burnout and maximize their relationships with their children, and that they must sustain a desire to sacrifice their independent selves for many years in order to savor the experience of motherhood. Home Is Where the School Is is the first comprehensive look into the lives of homeschooling mothers. Drawing on rich data collected through eight years of fieldwork and dozens of in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the intense effects of the emotional and temporal demands that homeschooling places on mothers’ lives, raising profound questions about the expectations of modern motherhood and the limits of parenting.

Women teachers. --- Mothers. --- Home schooling. --- Women as teachers --- Teachers --- Women educators --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Motherhood --- Pregnant women --- Domestic education --- Education, Home --- Home-based education --- Home education --- Home instruction --- Home teaching by parents --- Homeschooling --- Schooling, Home --- Education --- Parent participation --- Home schooling --- Women teachers --- Ecole à la maison --- Mères --- Enseignantes

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Why were women far more likely than men to be executed for witchcraft in the early modern period? Questioning approaches that focus narrowly on the male role in witch-hunting in England and Scotland, Deborah Willis examines the fact that women were also frequently the accusers.Willis draws on the strengths of feminist, new historicist, and psychoanalytic criticism and on such primary sources as legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and stage plays. Both the witch and her female accuser, Willis concludes, were engaged in a complex, intricate struggle for survival and empowerment in a patriarchal culture, and they stood in uneasy relation to definitions of female identity that rewarded nurturing behavior.Malevolent Nurture disentangles popular images of the witch from those endorsed by male elites. Among villagers, the witch was most typically imagined as a malevolent mother, while elites preferred to view her as a betraying servant of Satan. Analyzing King James VI and I's involvement in the North Berwick witchcraft trials, Willis shows how his elite atittudes were nevertheless influenced by his relationships with his brith mother, Mary Queen of Scots, and another maternal figure, Queen Elizabeth I.Willis also shows that Shakespeare, in Richard III, Macbeth, and Henry VI, and other middle-class playwrights incorporated the beliefs of the ruling class and villagers alike in their representations of witches.

Witchcraft in literature. --- Domestic drama, English --- Mothers --- Witches --- Witch hunting --- Occultists --- Warlocks --- Wiccans --- Burning witches --- Hunting witches --- Witch burning --- Witchburning --- Witchhunting --- Persecution --- Moms --- Parents --- Women --- Housewives --- Motherhood --- Pregnant women --- History and criticism. --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Persecutions --- Violence against --- Shakespeare, William, --- Knowledge --- Occultism.