Refiguring motherhood beyond biology /

Refiguring motherhood beyond biology /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
©2023
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages).
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary research in motherhood
Subject:
Motherhood -- Social aspects.
Mothers.
Motherhood -- Social aspects.
Mothers.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13553252
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Other authors / contributors:Cole, Kirsti, editor.
Renegar, Valerie, editor.
ISBN:9781003311799
1003311792
1000822591
9781000822571
1000822575
9781000822595
9781032318660
9781032318677
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Valerie Renegar is a Professor of Communication Studies at Southwestern University, and the holder of the Herman Brown Chair. Her research focuses on feminist rhetoric as well as the role of rhetoric in social change. Her work appears in several outlets including Hypatia, Women's Studies in Communication, Communication Studies, Howard Journal of Communications, and the Western Journal of Communication as well as chapters in a number of edited collections. Kirsti Cole is a Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature at Minnesota State University. She is the faculty chair of the Teaching Writing Graduate Certificate and Master's of Communication and Composition programs. She has published articles in Women's Studies in Communication, TCQ, Feminist Media Studies, College English, harlot, and thirdspace, as well as a number of chapters in edited collections. Her collection Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics was published in 2014. She has also edited the following collections with Holly Hassel: Surviving Sexism in the Academy: Feminist Strategies for Leadership (2017), Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values (2020), and Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices (2021).
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2023).
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Print version: Refiguring motherhood beyond biology Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032318660
Standard no.:10.4324/9781003311799
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Resisting Rhetorics of Mothering, Intensive Mothering, and Biological Determinism / VALERIE RENEGAR AND KIRSTI COLE
  • PART I Intersections of Motherhood Figures Beyond Biology
  • 1 Muslim Mothering and Divesting from Whiteness / LAMIYAH BAHRAINWALA
  • 2 SBF Seeking Motherhood: An Autoethnographic Journey Toward Pregnancy / NATASHA R. HOWARD
  • 3 Re-Imagining Queer Black Motherhood / ELIZABETH Y. WHITTINGTON
  • 4 Rhetorically Constructing Motherhood in Pregnancy / LossSARAH STEIMEL
  • 5 Comadrisma, Mamas, and Tias: An Intersectional Chicana Feminist Approach to Comunidad and Reproductive Justice / SARAH DE LOS SANTOS UPTON AND LEANDRA H. HERNANDEZ
  • PART II Refiguring Media Representations of Motherhood Beyond Biology
  • 6 Donors and Disclosures: Rhetorical Explanations of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Parenthood in Children's Literature / RAE LYNN SCHWARTZ-DUPRE AND STACEY K. SOWARDS
  • 7 Las No-Madres: The Commercialization and Medicalization of Infertility in Quien quiere ser madre / CATHERINE BOURLAND ROSS AND BAILEY BARLOW
  • 8 The Limitations of (Privileged) Maternal Appeals: Sandra Steingraber's Constructions of Mothering in a Toxic Environment / MOLLIE K. MURPHY
  • 9 Ableism and Motherhood: Invisible Illness and Moral Implications of "Good" Mothering / ELIZABETH L. SPRADLEY
  • 10 "'But This is Supposed to be the Happiest Time of my Life!': The Neoliberal Turn in Women's Discourses of Postpartum in Our Bodies, Ourselves" / JENNIFER ROME KRUSE
  • 11 Spiritual Mothers: Evangelical Practices of Mothering in the 21st Century / SARAH KORNFIELD
  • PART III Refiguring the Rhetoric of Motherhood Beyond Biology
  • 12 Reconceptualizing "Maternity" to Recognize Men: Images of Pregnant Trans Men as Visual Argument / ERIKA M. THOMAS
  • 13 A Visual Definition of Caregiving: Caring About, Caring for, and the Feminization of Care / RACHEL D. DAVIDSON AND LARA C. STACHE
  • 14 #Motherof Exiles: Gender and Race in Motherhood Appeals to Protest Family Separation Policies / HEIDI HAMILTON
  • 15 "Good" Mothering and the Question of Migrant Mothers at the Border / KATHERINE J. HAMPSTEN
  • 16 Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and the Rise of the Ideal Stepmother / VALERIE RENEGAR AND KIRSTI COLE
  • Afterword / SARA HAYDEN AND JENNIFER L. BORDA
  • Index.

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