Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy / edited by Sharon M. Meagher and Patrice DiQuinzio.
"This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good"...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Series: | SUNY series in gender theory.
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| Summary: | "This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose "to put women and children first," including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish "good" from "bad" mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423747631 9781423747635 079146539X 9780791465394 0791465403 9780791465400 9780791482858 0791482855 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |