Description |
1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Sociology of Children and Families |
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Sociology of children and families series.
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Contents |
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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
Summary |
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 and policies |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Neoliberal politics of class categorization |
Subject |
Motherhood -- Great Britain
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Motherhood -- Canada
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Attachment behavior in infants.
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Women, Black.
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Parenting -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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Parenting -- Social aspects -- Canada
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Attachment behavior in infants
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Motherhood
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Parenting -- Social aspects
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Women, Black
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Canada
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Great Britain
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781529207965 |
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1529207967 |
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9781529207972 |
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1529207975 |
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