ISBN:
9781138777354
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (166 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Series on Identity Politics
Parallel Title:
Print version The Political Uses of Motherhood in America
DDC:
306.8743
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
As various contemporary groups use the language of motherhood to advance their political causes, maternal rhetoric has become very visible in the American political discourse of late. Yet while it has long been recognized that women have invoked their political status as mothers to organize and authorize their political action in the past, scholars have only just begun to examine the recent reemergence of this frame. This book describes the wide variety of political causes that mothers are organizing to address, and analyses whether ideologically conservative organizations are disproportionate
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The Uses of Motherhood in American Politics; 3 Motherhood Makes Strange Bedfellows: An Overview of Politically Active Mothers Groups; 4 Origins of Action: Founding Motivations; 5 Grieving Mothers, Anchor Babies, and Time-Out Chairs: Ideological Variation in the Political Uses of Motherhood; 6 The Possibilities and Perils of Political Motherhood; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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