Dangerous ideas about mothers / edited by Camilla Nelson & Rachel Robertson.
| Other author | Nelson, Camilla, 1967- editor. |
| Other author | Robertson, Rachel, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | xii, 246 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Scrutiny / Camilla Nelson and Rachel Robertson on what is behind the rise of the mummy bullies -- Dangerous dilemmas. Mothers and the quest for social justice / Anne Manne on moving from the ‘universal breadwinner’ to a ‘universal caregiver’ regime -- Domesticating violence / Alecia Simmonds on reading the politics of the Family Court into the Luke Batty coronial inquest -- Screentime panics / Catharine Lumby on gender and media panics over kids and media -- The mumpreneur / Camilla Nelson on raising kids in consumer culture -- Dangerous lives. Being a boy mama / Quinn Eades on why everything matters for a trans parent -- ‘You have no fucking idea’ / Rachel Robertson and Christina Fernandes on mothering children with a disability -- Once upon a time, in motherland / Josephine Wilson on overseas adoption -- Speak English! / Zora Simic on non-English-speaking mothers and their children -- The only thing you see is a story to tell / Timmah Ball on Indigenous mothers -- Feisty and childfree / Hazel Smith on voluntary childlessness as an alternative to mothering -- Zen and the art of choking to death as a single parent / Emma A. Jane on single parenting -- BBC Dad, Homer Simpson and the contradictions of modern fatherhood / Matt Beard on the contradictions of modern fatherhood -- Dangerous stories against motherhood memoirs / Maria Tumarkin on the calcification of ‘momoirs’ -- I’ll eat you up / Danielle Wood on mothers in fairytales, literature and life -- From containing to creating / Petra Bueskens on the psychology of maternal subjectivity -- Motherhood statements / Natasha Weir on reading feminism in the Women’s Weekly. |
| Abstract | This book is not a guide. It won't give advice on birth, breastfeeding, or bonding. And it's not aimed solely at parents. Dangerous Ideas about Mothers is a book about motherhood as a cultural construct. Mothers are a topic on which almost everybody has an opinion, and always have. Now, however, those opinions are funnelled into and amplified on social media, where conversations turn ugly and advice is commercialised (read: the rise of the Mumpreneurs). Often, social media is understood as a place where mothers can either show off or shut up. It is from this idea of heightened scrutiny that Dangerous Ideas About Mothers takes its leave. This book confronts the issues that do not appear in many discussions of mothering, from divorce and over-burdened court systems, parenting children with a disability, to the big business of mummy-dom, to shifting ideas about fathers, to the increasing numbers of women who choose not to have children. It opens up a space where the taboo and unspoken can be voiced, and makes room for those marginalised by regular conversations around mothers and motherhood. Contributors include Anne Manne, Catharine Lumby, Danielle Wood, Maria Tumarkin, Josephine Wilson, Quinn Eades, and Timmah Ball. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781742589909 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1742589901 (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HQ759 .D36 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |