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Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy / edited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio

DiQuinzio, Patrice ; Meagher, Sharon M.

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005

Online-Ressource (vii, 263 p)

Englisch

""WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction:Women and Children First""; ""PART I. (Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions""; ""2. Homeland Security and theCo-optation of Feminist Discourse""; ""3. Unsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments:The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse aroundCohabitation and Single-Motherhood""; ""4. Enemies of the State:Poor White Mothers and theDiscourse of Universal Human Rights""; ""PART II. Medical Discourses and Social Ills""

""5. Fixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex""""6. Social Melancholy, Shame,and Sublimation""; ""PART III. Subjects of Violence""; ""7. Predators and Protectors:The Rhetoric of School Violence""; ""8. Battered Woman Syndrome:Locating the SubjectAmidst the Advocacy""; ""Part IV. Mothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children""; ""9. Bad Mothers as “Brown� Mothersin Western Canadian Policy Discourse:Substance-Abusing Mothers andSexually Exploited Girls""; ""10. Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal:Motherhood and Fetal Harm""

""Part V. Protesting Mothers: Politics under the Sign of Motherhood""""11. (M)others, Biopolitics,and the Gulf War""; ""12. Love and Reason in the Public Sphere:Maternalist Civic Engagementand the Dilemma of Difference""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""z""

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version: Women and Children First : Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy

0-7914-6539-X (hardcover : alk. paper); 0-7914-6540-3 (pbk. : alk. paper); 978-0-7914-6539-4 ( : hardcover : alk. paper)

978-0-7914-6539-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2011

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-0-7914-8285-8 (ebook)

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LOC-SH: Canada -- Social policy ; United States -- Social policy -- 1993- ; Feminist theory

Canada ; Social policy ; Feminist theory ; United States ; Social policy ; 1993- ; Electronic books

Intro -- WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction:Women and Children First -- PART I. (Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions -- 2. Homeland Security and theCo-optation of Feminist Discourse -- 3. Unsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments:The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse aroundCohabitation and Single-Motherhood -- 4. Enemies of the State:Poor White Mothers and theDiscourse of Universal Human Rights -- PART II. Medical Discourses and Social Ills -- 5. Fixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex -- 6. Social Melancholy, Shame,and Sublimation -- PART III. Subjects of Violence -- 7. Predators and Protectors:The Rhetoric of School Violence -- 8. Battered Woman Syndrome:Locating the SubjectAmidst the Advocacy -- Part IV. Mothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children -- 9. Bad Mothers as "Brown" Mothersin Western Canadian Policy Discourse:Substance-Abusing Mothers andSexually Exploited Girls -- 10. Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal:Motherhood and Fetal Harm -- Part V. Protesting Mothers: Politics under the Sign of Motherhood -- 11. (M)others, Biopolitics,and the Gulf War -- 12. Love and Reason in the Public Sphere:Maternalist Civic Engagementand the Dilemma of Difference -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- z.