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Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Meagher, Sharon M., DiQuinzio, Patrice, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Colección:SUNY series in gender theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: women and children first / Patrice DiQuinzio and Sharon M. Meagher
  • Homeland security and the co-optation of feminist discourse / Elizabeth F. Randol
  • Unsanctioned (bedroom) commitments: the 2000 U.S. Census discourse around cohabitation and single-motherhood / Kirsten Isgro
  • Enemies of the state: poor white mothers and the discourse of universal human rights / Jennifer A. Reich
  • Fixing sex: medical discourse and the management of intersex / Ellen K. Feder
  • Social melancholy, shame, and sublimation / Kelly Oliver
  • Predators and protectors: the rhetoric of school violence / Sharon M. Meagher
  • Battered Woman Syndrome: locating the subject amidst the advocacy / Sally J. Scholz
  • Bad mothers as "brown" mothers in western Canadian policy discourse: substance-abusing mothers and sexually exploited girls / Norma L. Buydens
  • Behind bars or up on a pedestal: motherhood and fetal harm / Tricha Shivas and Sonya Charles
  • (M)others, biopolitics, and the Gulf War / Tina Managhan
  • Love and reason in the public sphere: maternalist civic engagement and the dilemma of difference / Patrice DiQuinzio.