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Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada.
This outstanding work examines black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting and shows how it both undermines and reflects neoliberalism. Unique in its intersectional analysis, it fills a gap in the literature, drawing on black feminist theorizing to examine intensive mothering practices...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Sociology of children and families series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Half title
- Series
- Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting: A Black Feminist Analysis of Intensive Mothering in Britain and Canada
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Are you 'mom enough'?
- Structure of the book
- Part I Contextualizing Attachment Parenting: AP's Rise to Prominence (and Infamy)
- 2 From Scientific Motherhood to Intensive Mothering
- Scientific motherhood
- The marginalization of midwifery in Canada
- The promotion of bottle feeding in the UK
- A fair exchange?
- Attachment parenting
- A word on attachment theory
- Intensive mothering
- Conclusion
- 3 Why Now? AP in a Neoliberal, Postracial Context
- Everything is neoliberal and neoliberalism is everything
- The depoliticization of race
- Neoliberal motherhood as management of risk
- Constructions of black motherhood
- Pres(ci)ent histories of black motherhood
- Making sense of AP and black motherhood: black feminist theory
- Black women create self-definitions and self-valuations
- Black women confront the interlocking structure of domination
- Black women intertwine intellectual thought and political activism
- Black women recognize a distinct cultural heritage (or transnational blackness)
- The mothers
- Olive
- Claudia
- Ida
- The remaining mothers
- Conclusion
- Part II AP and Parenting Advice in Britain and Canada
- 4 Best for Whom? Experiences of Breastfeeding
- "Nature's milk"
- Accounting for breastfeeding difficulties
- 'Breast is best', but not for too long
- Conclusion
- 5 Mother Knows Best? Bedsharing against Expert Advice
- What say the state? The dangers of bedsharing
- Justifying bedsharing
- Bedsharing as intensive mothering
- Whose expertise?
- Conclusion
- 6 Babywearing: Fads, Dangers and Cultural Appropriation
- Babywearing? "What's that?"
- Safer babywearing and its consequences
- Back to Africa?
- Conclusion
- Part III Dividing Parenting Labour
- 7 Negotiating Parental Leave Policies in Britain and Canada
- From maternity leave to parental leave (and back again)
- Parental leave in Britain and Canada
- What is parental leave for?
- Staying at home
- "Little details" and gifts: fathers' roles and responsibilities
- "Staying healthy for you": fathers' bodies
- "He doesn't have a boob, so ...": mothers' bodies
- Conclusion
- 8 'Staying at Home' or 'Choosing to Work'
- Black feminist self-definition
- Olive
- Rebecca
- False consciousness? Or alternative futures?
- Conclusion
- Part IV Constructing an Oppositional Model of Good Motherhood
- 9 Reclaiming AP
- (Re)claiming AP
- When 'home' is backwards
- AP to belong (and stand out)
- AP for the community
- Parenting to resist racism
- Conclusion
- 10 Conclusion
- Baby Bs, divisions of parenting labour and reclaiming AP
- Self-definitions and attempts to reclaim AP
- Neoliberal contexts