ISBN:
9781643362953
,
164336295X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 239 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Adams, Heather Brook Enduring shame
DDC:
306.874/32
Keywords:
Unmarried mothers
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Teenage pregnancy
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Pregnancy Psychological aspects
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Abortion Psychological aspects
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Women's rights
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth
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Abortion ; Psychological aspects
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Manners and customs
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Pregnancy ; Psychological aspects
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Teenage pregnancy
;
Unmarried mothers
;
Women's rights
;
United States Social life and customs 20th century
;
United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction: Sex, Shame, and Rhetoric -- One Unwed Pregnancy and Radial Rhetorics of Shame -- Two New Permissiveness, Stigma, and Unwed Pregnancy in the Early 1970s -- Three Macrochange, Reproductive Agency, and the Stickiness of Shame -- Four Rhetorical Blame and Pregnant Teens in the Late 1970s -- Conclusion: The Legacies of Righteous Reproduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Abstract:
"It was not long ago that ...
Abstract:
"It was not long ago that unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished their "illegitimate" children to "more deserving" two-parent families-all in the name of keeping secret shameful pregnancies. Although times and practices have changed, reproductive politics remain a fraught topic and site of injustice, especially for poor women and women of color. Enduring Shame explores two volatile decades in American history-the 1960s and '70s-to trace how shame remained a dynamic and animating emotion in increasingly public interventions into unwed and teen pregnancy.Heather Brook Adams makes a case for recasting this era not as a time of gaining reproductive rights for all but rather as a moment when communicative practices of shame and blame cultivated new forms of injustice. Drawing from personal interviews, archival documents, legal decisions, public policy, journalism, memoirs, and advocacy writing, Adams articulates the rhetorical power of shame to explain how the American public was persuaded to think about reproduction, sexual righteousness, and unwed pregnancy during a time of presumed progress"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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