ISBN:
9781926452166
,
192645216X
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 249 Seiten
,
23 cm
DDC:
306.874/3
Keywords:
Motherhood
;
Mothers and sons
;
Men
;
Parents
;
Men
;
Parents
;
maternity
;
men (male humans)
;
Men
;
Motherhood
;
Mothers and sons
;
Parents
Abstract:
Foreword / Andrea Doucet -- Introduction / Gary Lee Pelletier and Fiona Joy Green -- Parental thinking: what does gender have to do with it? / Joanne S. Frye -- Does the manny mother? / Gary Lee Pelletier -- "Is he the son of no one?": a son's relational narrative on his mother / Nick J. Mulé -- Why isn't everyone celebrating me? My mom, bankruptcy, and my ego / Justin Butler -- Lesbian families, sons, and mothering: parenting outside the boundaries / Alys Einion -- Changing the gender script: Ecuadorian son's increased domesticity and emotive response to transnational mothering / Ruth Trinidad Galván -- TV's new dads: sensitive fatherhood and the return of hegemonic masculinity / Dwayne Avery -- What's so funny about childbirth? The projection of patriarchal masculinity in popular comedic childbirth guides / Jeffrey Nall -- Just along for the ride? A father-to-be searching for his role / C. Wesley Buerkle -- Mommie dearest: undoing a gay identity through pregnancy / Jack Hixson-Vulpe -- The ties that bind are broken: trans* breastfeeding practices, ungendering body parts, and unsexing parenting roles / A.J. Lowik -- Becoming mother's nature: a queer son's perspective on mothering in an era of ecological decline / Michael Young.
Abstract:
"Mothers, daughters and mothering have been a longtime focus of research and study in various academic disciplines, and common topics of interest in mainstream press and popular culture, yet the realities and experiences of sons, men, mothers and mothering have been less explored. In her 1980 article "Maternal Thinking" Sara Ruddick theorized, "although some men do, and more men should acquire maternal thinking, their ways of acquisition are necessarily different from ours (women's)". Feminist scholars during the 1990s and early 2000s, such as Audré Lorde (1993), Robin Morgan (1996), Babette Smith (1995), Robyn Rowland and Alison M. Thomas (1996), and those appearing in Andrea O'Reilly's 2001 edited collection Mothers and Sons address the role and struggle of mothers raising sons. And while Andrea Doucet directly explores the question of whether men mother in her book Do Men Mother (2006) and Gary Pelletier reflects on the role of internalized patriarchy and the lens of feminist maternal theory in understan
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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