The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes good motherhood grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigmatizedperhaps now more than everfor all that is perceived to go wrong in their childrens lives.This anthology brings together creative and scholarly contributions from feminist academics and activists alike to provide a dynamic study of the many varied ways in which mothers are blamed and shamed for their maternal practice. Importantly, it also considers how mothers resist these ideologies by engaging in empowered and feminist mothering practices, as well as by publicly challenging patriarchal discourses of good motherhood.
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Weight: 526g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 30 Nov 2015
Publisher: Demeter Press
Publication City/Country: Canada
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781926452142
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Vanessa Reimer is a PhD candidate in York Universitys Graduate Program in Gender Feminist and Womens Studies. She is the co-editor of Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced us as Feminist Academics and Activists (Reimer and Sahagian 2013). Her research interests include feminist studies in religion girlhood and mothering.Sarah Sahagian is a PhD candidate in Gender Feminist and Womens studies at York University where she is currently writing her dissertation on the mothering of inter-ethnic children. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Chasing Rainbows a popular anthology on gender fluid parenting as well as The Huffington Postthe pop culture website Comments Enabled and the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative. Sarah also is the co-editor of the Demeter Press book Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Academics and Activists.