Intensive Mothering
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays' landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays' concept of "intensive mothering" as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays' original work...
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Chicago :
Demeter Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Intensive Mothering
- Part I: Understanding and Assessing Intensive Mothering
- Intensive Mothering as an Adaptive Response to Our Cultural Environment
- I Don't Know Where I End and You Begin
- Status Safeguarding
- The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood Revisited
- The Ideal Mother Fantasy and Its Protective Function
- From Intensive Mothering to Identity Parenting
- Using a Quantitative Measure to Explore Intensive Mothering Ideology
- Part II: Intensive Mothering Today
- State Intervention in Intensive Mothering
- Is Attachment Mothering Intensive Mothering?
- Better Babies, Better Mothers
- How Contemporary Consumerism Shapes Intensive Mothering Practices
- Intensive Mothering, Elimination Communication, and the Call to Eden
- Intensive Grandmothering?
- Part III: Intensive Mothering: Staying, Leaving or Changing?
- The Best I Can
- The Cultural Contradictions of Fatherhood
- Skinny Jeans
- Transpersonal Motherhood
- Epilogue
- Contributor Notes