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Journal articles on the topic "Motherhood and feminism"

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Murray, Ross. "The feminine mystique: feminism, sexuality, motherhood." Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics 2, no. 1 (June 2011): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2011.576881.

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Baehr, Amy R. "Conservatism, Feminism, and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese." Hypatia 24, no. 2 (2009): 101–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01034.x.

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This paper is a philosophical reconstruction of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's thinking about women and feminism, and an inquiry into whether there is a conservative form of feminism. The paper argues that Fox-Genovese's endorsement of conventional social forms (like traditional marriage, motherhood, and sexual morality) contrasts strongly with feminism's criticism of these forms, and feminism's claim that they should be transformed. The paper concludes, however, that one need not call Fox-Genovese's thought “feminist” to recognize it as serious advocacy on behalf of women and to include it in discussions about what is good for women.

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Aksehir, Mahinur, and Derya Şaşman-Kaylı. "The influence of motherhood in the construction of female identity: A subversive approach to motherhood in Erendiz Atasü’s novels." Journal of European Studies 51, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00472441211010891.

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Within masculine ideology the concept of motherhood remains essential to female identity. That is why it is important to focus on the representations of motherhood in literature, where the most controversial discussions of feminism can be found. The issue of motherhood remains an unresolved issue today, with opposing arguments even within the feminist movement. This paper aims to analyse the issue of motherhood in the novels of Erendiz Atasü, who has acquired an undisputed place as a feminist writer in Turkish literature. She undermines the traditional concept of motherhood and uses it as a tool for deciphering and transforming masculine ideology.

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Deepwell, Katy. "Art Criticism and the State of Feminist Art Criticism." Arts 9, no. 1 (February 25, 2020): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts9010028.

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This essay is in four parts. The first offers a critique of James Elkins and Michael Newman’s book The State of Art Criticism (Routledge, 2008) for what it tells us about art criticism in academia and journalism and feminism; the second considers how a gendered analysis measures the “state” of art and art criticism as a feminist intervention; and the third, how neo-liberal mis-readings of Linda Nochlin and Laura Mulvey in the art world represent feminism in ideas about “greatness” and the “gaze”, whilst avoiding feminist arguments about women artists or their work, particularly on “motherhood”. In the fourth part, against the limits of the first three, the state of feminist art criticism across the last fifty years is reconsidered by highlighting the plurality of feminisms in transnational, transgenerational and progressive alliances.

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Ferguson, Ann. "Motherhood and Sexuality: Some Feminist Questions." Hypatia 1, no. 2 (1986): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1986.tb00834.x.

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This is a review essay that also serves as an introduction to the other essays in the issue. It discusses feminist theory's relation to Freud, feminist ethical questions on motherhood and sexuality, the historical question of how systems of socially constructed sexual desire connect to male dominance, the question of the role of the body in feminst theory, and disputes within feminism on self, gender, agency and power.

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Randall, Vicky. "Feminism and Child Daycare." Journal of Social Policy 25, no. 4 (October 1996): 485–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400023916.

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ABSTRACTThis article explores some of the main reasons why feminist mobilisation around the issue of child daycare in Britain has been so limited and its impact so modest. It describes this mobilisation, comparing it with experience in other countries and with mobilisation on other issues. It suggests that the modest achievement to date is largely attributable to factors other than the lack of feminist pressure. Indeed feminist reservations were partly a realistic response to these external constraints. But they were also a consequence of the particular character of second wave feminism in Britain and of the questions posed by the issue of childcare for feminists. These questions included the nature and proper role of the state, motherhood, the value of paid employment for women, social class and the tension between short and long-term strategies for social change.

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SHIM, JUNG-SOON. "Recasting the National Motherhood: Transactions of Western Feminisms in Korean Theatre." Theatre Research International 29, no. 2 (July 2004): 143–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788330400029x.

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The image of the National Motherhood is the potent cultural code for Koreans. The word ‘Feminism’ in the Korean context is identified as a system of ideas originating from the West. What happens when these two disparate cultural/historical impulses meet at the intersection of modern Korean theatre? This study examines the cultural transfer of Western feminisms and feminist plays in the Korean theatre from the 1920s, when Ibsen's play A Doll's House was first introduced to Korea, to the present. More specifically, it analyses six Western feminist plays such as Nell Dunn's Steaming and Marsha Norman's 'Night, Mother, by focusing on how the Korean women's movement and modern Korean drama movement intersect with each other in terms of historical and cultural background; how these two historical impulses interact with Western feminist plays in terms of the intentions and reception of such plays in the Korean theatre arena, and how the image of the National Motherhood, the potent cultural code for Koreans, intervenes in this process.

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Belliotti, Raymond A. "Marxism, Feminism, and Surrogate Motherhood." Social Theory and Practice 14, no. 3 (1988): 389–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract198814318.

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Taylor, Erin N., and Lora Ebert Wallace. "For Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt." Hypatia 27, no. 1 (2012): 76–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01238.x.

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In this paper, we provide a new framework for understanding infant‐feeding‐related maternal guilt and shame, placing these in the context of feminist theoretical and psychological accounts of the emotions of self‐assessment. Whereas breastfeeding advocacy has been critiqued for its perceived role in inducing maternal guilt, we argue that the emotion women often feel surrounding infant feeding may be better conceptualized as shame in its tendency to involve a negative self‐assessment—a failure to achieve an idealized notion of good motherhood. Further, we suggest, both formula‐feeding and breastfeeding mothers experience shame: the former report feeling that they fail to live up to ideals of womanhood and motherhood, and the latter transgress cultural expectations regarding feminine modesty. The problem, then, is the degree to which mothers are vulnerable to shame generally, regardless of infant feeding practices. As an emotion that is less adaptive and potentially more damaging than guilt, shame ought to be the focus of resistance for both feminists and breastfeeding advocates, who need to work in conjunction with women to oppose this shame by assisting them in constructing their own ideals of good motherhood that incorporate a sense of self‐concern.

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Yang, Dan. "Analysis of Caryl Churchill’s Feminism Deconstruction on Top Girls." English Language and Literature Studies 9, no. 4 (November 14, 2019): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v9n4p74.

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This study, based on identity and selfhood in postmodernism, probed into feminism deconstruction, which would help to interpret the postmodernism narrative trends in contemporary English plays. With the purpose to make sarcasms on “top girls”, she deconstructed feminism through four aspects: feminine characters disrespected other feminine characters, feminine characters gave up feminine and motherhood identities, feminine characters’ success in different times and spaces embodied their sufferings, and the play without male characters was full of male’s impacts everywhere. By means of deconstructing feminism, she made sarcasm on top girls and blamed the power systems in the current society.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Motherhood and feminism"

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Ward, Elizabeth. "Feminism, New Labour and lone motherhood." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439211.

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Cragg, Caitlin M. "An examination of maternal instinct and modern motherhood: reconciling Feminism and Darwinism." Thesis, Boston University, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27627.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Banks, Hannah. "Young mothers speak out: Young Pākehā women's experiences of motherhood." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2519.

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Early motherhood is a much debated and highly contentious topic. This research aimed to explore young Pākehā women's experiences of motherhood using a feminist qualitative framework. Twelve women, six current young mothers and six former young mothers, were interviewed via focus groups and individual interviews. The analysis revealed that Pākehā culture constructs young mothers as problematic because they challenge the 'traditional' family dominant in Pākehā culture. By having children prior to, rather than after, workforce participation and achieving economic independence, young mothers challenge the prescribed life trajectory for Pākehā women. The women in this study discussed both the positive aspects and the challenges they faced as young mothers. In contrast to common public perceptions and media representations of early motherhood as negative, motherhood positively transformed the women's lives. This was discussed in terms of ceasing destructive activities and gaining motivation to return to education. The young mothers in this study had flexible parenting styles, which allowed them freedom from Pākehā cultural pressure to 'do motherhood' in a particular way. As young mothers, the women had high energy levels and anticipated early future freedom from childcare duties to pursue their dreams. Challenges discussed by the women included incorporating unanticipated early motherhood into long-held life goals, feeling exhausted, having a lack of time for themselves and having too little support. Financial hardship, poverty, judgment and stigma surfaced as major challenges which affected all areas of the women's lives. However, the women also resisted this discrimination by using a range of strategies, which positions them as women with agency, challenging their representation within literature as passive victims. Young women will not use services where they perceive they will be judged for being who they are. As levels of support appear to determine how young women experience motherhood, services have a vital role to play in supporting young mothers. The findings of this study highlighted the complex and contradictory nature of the young mothers' stories, presenting a challenge to simple and stereotypical negative discourses of early motherhood.

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Liston-Beck, Annalycia R. "Mobilizing Motherhood: The Symbolic Politics of Motherhood in Transcultural Perspective." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524742980880805.

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Black, Amy. "The politics of motherhood in post-war Britain, feminism, socialism and the Labour Party." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0012/MQ36345.pdf.

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Davis, Lisa A. "Feminism and The Women of Stars Hollow: The Gilmore Girls." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1276797081.

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McIntyre, Heather Dawn. "Mystical Motherhood: Blending Ecstatic Religious Experience with Feminist Discourse in Appalachian Fiction." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276621461.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives: mothering as a corporeal experience, mothering as a psychological experience, and the articulations and silences of mothering-as-subject. It engages with feminist, postmodern and fictocritical theories in its discussion of motherhood as a discourse through these perspectives. In particular, the thesis employs the theoretical works of postmodern feminists Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in this discussion . . . A fictional narrative also runs through the critical discussion on motherhood. This narrative, Catherine’s Story, gives a personal and immediate voice to the mother-as-subject perspective. In keeping with the nature of fictocriticism, strict textual boundaries between criticism and fiction are blurred. The two modes of writing interact and in the process inform and critique each other.

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Merley, Hill Alexandra. "Maternal drag identity, motherhood, and performativity in the works of Julia Franck /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3359140/.

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Hayt, Anthony. "Remade in Our Image: Gender, Melodrama, and Conservatism in Post-9/11 Slasher Remakes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17925.

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This project details the ways in which the classic slasher films of the 1970s, and their post-9/11 remakes, are representative of the individual and complex world views out of which each set of films were borne. The remakes manipulate gender roles including those of the Final Girl and the mother; genre conventions, including increases in domestic melodrama and pathos; production models, including the use of star actors, directors, and producers; sexuality and presentation of the sexualized female body; and race, especially in fine differences between white and non-white characters. In doing so, the post-9/11 films reveal a conservative cultural climate that strives to show recovery of the nuclear family unit after trauma, unlike the originals which are more nihilistic in tone and portray families as either absent or deeply flawed and unrecoverable.

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Books on the topic "Motherhood and feminism"

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Motherhood and feminism. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2010.

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Roiphe, Anne Richardson. A mother's eye: Motherhood and feminism. London: Virago, 1997.

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Allen, Ann Taylor. Feminism and motherhood in Germany, 1800-1914. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

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Motherhood deferred: A woman's journey. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.

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Stevens, Cristina M. T. Maternidade e feminismo: Diálogos interdisciplinares. Ilha de Santa Catarina: Editora Mulheres, 2007.

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Stone, Alison. Feminism, psychoanalysis, and maternal subjectivity. New York: Routledge, 2011.

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Raj, Maithreyi Krishna. Motherhood in India: Glorification without empowerment? New Delhi: Routledge, 2010.

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Allen, Ann Taylor. Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890–1970. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403981431.

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Frohnhaus, Gabriele. Feminismus und Mutterschaft: Eine Analyse theoretischer Konzepte und der Mütterbewegung in Deutschland. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien Verlag, 1994.

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Maternidades: (de)construcciones feministas. Oviedo: Krk Ediciones, 2009.

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Book chapters on the topic "Motherhood and feminism"

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Richardson, Diane. "Feminism and motherhood." In Women, Motherhood and Childrearing, 110–24. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22622-1_6.

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Komporaly, Jozefina. "Rethinking Motherhood: Instances of Proto-Feminism." In Staging Motherhood, 8–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230598485_2.

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Richardson, Diane. "Feminism and childrearing." In Women, Motherhood and Childrearing, 125–43. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22622-1_7.

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Rendall, Jane. "Feminism and Republicanism: ‘Republican Motherhood’." In The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States 1780–1860, 33–72. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17733-2_3.

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Jackson, Elizabeth. "Motherhood and Other Work." In Feminism and Contemporary Indian Women’s Writing, 84–110. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230275096_4.

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Silva, Kumarini. "Got Milk?: Motherhood, Breastfeeding, and (Re)domesticating Feminism." In Feminist Erasures, 167–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137454928_10.

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Zaslow, Emilie. "“I Don’t Know What I’m Going to Do When It Happens”: Independence, Motherhood, Careers, and Imagining the Future." In Feminism, Inc., 105–26. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230101531_6.

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Sims-Schouten, Wendy. "Critical Realist Discourse Analysis, motherhood, and gender." In Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader, 278–95. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |Series: Routledge studies in critical realism: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315112138-12.

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Yoong, Melissa. "Neoliberal Feminism and Media Discourses of Employed Motherhood." In Professional Discourses, Gender and Identity in Women's Media, 63–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55544-3_4.

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Fullagar, Simone, Wendy O’Brien, and Adele Pavlidis. "Motherhood, Hauntings and the Affective Arrangement of Care." In Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery, 107–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11626-2_4.

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