The mother-blame game / edited by Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian.

"The Mother-Blame Game is an interdisciplinary and intersectional examination of the phenomenon of mother-blame in the twenty-first century. As the socioeconomic and cultural expectations of what constitutes "good motherhood" grow continually narrow and exclusionary, mothers are demonized and stigma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Reimer, Vanessa, 1986- (Author, Editor)
Sahagian, Sarah, 1986- (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Demeter Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Motherhood > 21st century.
Mothers > Social conditions > 21st century.
Blame > Social aspects > 21st century.
Physical Description:xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Contextualizing the mother-blame game / Vanessa Reimer and Sarah Sahagian
  • Mother-blame and the body
  • Mothers, daughters, blame, and the body / Tasha Muresan, Heather Reel, Marie Hansen, and Aurelie Athan
  • Breastfeeding shame and the birth of the mother / Catherine Robinson
  • Unfit mothers? Mother-blame and moral panic over "obesity" / Tracy Royce
  • Blaming "othered" mothers
  • Fated fate? Patriarchal ethics and reproductive politics in Southwest China / Fang-Tzu Yen
  • "I was the one who opened my legs": the tropes and consequences of blaming pregnant and mothering teens / Jenna Vinson and Sally Stevens
  • "Because you had me as a teen": neoliberalism and the "problem" of teen pregnancy / Vanessa Reimer
  • From the court of law to the court of public opinion: the role of mother-blame in Canadian infanticide cases / Kaley M. Ames
  • "We want to consistently address their needs": explorations of the perceptions, experiences and challenges of parenting interventions for incarcerated mothers / Talia Esnard
  • Mother-blame in popular culture
  • Blaming the mother: the politics of gender in Cindy Sheehan's protest of the Iraq War / Linda Pershing
  • Tiger mothers and the birth of a new maternal epithet: a feminist critical discourse analysis of popular responses to Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother / Sarah Sahagian
  • "Because my mother was a liar and a whore": adulterous mothers and paternity uncertainty in Jo Nesbø's The Snowman / Berit Åström
  • Lean in or leave before you leave? False dichotomies of choice and blame in public debates about working motherhood / Jennifer L. Borda
  • Sharing mother-blame stories: strategies for resistance
  • Twice shamed and twice blamed: assumptions, myths, and stereotypes about "giving up a child" and "taking in a child" / Lee Murray and Kerri Kearney
  • What my Buddhist son taught me about blame / Rosie Rosenzweig
  • "Disabling" motherhood in 1914 and 2014: stories of two women / Alison Quaggin Harkin
  • Loving Miss JBP: writing/art as mothering practice in a mother-blaming culture / Lorinda Peterson.