Feminist Mothering
A Parenting, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality book. I like to call myself a feminist mom blogger, but after reading Feminist Mothering I find...
Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women's empowerment and social change. The contributors see "feminist mothering" as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of patriarchal motherhood that are limiting and oppressive to women. For many women, practicing feminist mothering offers a way to disrupt the transmission of sexist and patriarchal values from generation to generation. Contributors explore the ways in which women integrate activism, paid employment, nonsexist childrearing practices, and non-child-centered interests in their lives--and other caregivers into their children's lives--in order to challenge existing societal inequality and create new egalitarian possibilities for women, men, and families.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 287 pages
- ISBN: 9780791475584 / 791475581
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I like to call myself a feminist mom blogger, but after reading Feminist Mothering I find myself questioning that label. Mostly I find myself questioning how I see feminist mothering and what that means to me. If asked to give a definition of feminist mothering before reading this text, I would have told you that it was about raising...
