Reiko Ohnuma
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199915651
- eISBN:
- 9780199950058
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199915651.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter argues that mother-love is highly idealized in Indian Buddhist literature as the most intense, compassionate, and self-sacrificing type of love possible. As such, mother-love often ...
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This chapter argues that mother-love is highly idealized in Indian Buddhist literature as the most intense, compassionate, and self-sacrificing type of love possible. As such, mother-love often serves as a metaphor for the compassion of buddhas and bodhisattvas, who are said to love all beings “just as a mother loves her only son.” At the same time, however, the particularistic love characteristic of the mother stands in sharp contrast to the universal love characteristic of the Buddha, and thus mother-love is also condemned as the most pernicious form possible of attachment and suffering. As metaphor, mother-love is idealized; as reality, it is ultimately condemned. The Buddhist depiction of mother-love is further clarified not only by contrasting mother-love with father-love, but also by comparing good mothers and bad mothers, and by contrasting the mother’s love for the son with the idealized son’s love for the mother.Less
This chapter argues that mother-love is highly idealized in Indian Buddhist literature as the most intense, compassionate, and self-sacrificing type of love possible. As such, mother-love often serves as a metaphor for the compassion of buddhas and bodhisattvas, who are said to love all beings “just as a mother loves her only son.” At the same time, however, the particularistic love characteristic of the mother stands in sharp contrast to the universal love characteristic of the Buddha, and thus mother-love is also condemned as the most pernicious form possible of attachment and suffering. As metaphor, mother-love is idealized; as reality, it is ultimately condemned. The Buddhist depiction of mother-love is further clarified not only by contrasting mother-love with father-love, but also by comparing good mothers and bad mothers, and by contrasting the mother’s love for the son with the idealized son’s love for the mother.
Deborah Gray White
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040900
- eISBN:
- 9780252099403
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040900.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter shows how the Million Mom March helped parents, especially mothers, heal from the loss of a loved one to gun violence. It compares past maternalist movements to this one and shows the ...
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This chapter shows how the Million Mom March helped parents, especially mothers, heal from the loss of a loved one to gun violence. It compares past maternalist movements to this one and shows the uneasy coexistence of feminism and maternalism. It explores how suburban mothers who were mostly white and urban mothers who were mostly black and Hispanic, came to believe that American society was sick, that all mothers were the antidote, and that together they could get gun control adopted and stop gun violence. While demonstrating the possibilities for coalition this chapter argues that the color-blind approach failed against the National Rifle Association, which evoked images negligent mothers, over-indulgent mothers, bad black mothers and criminal black beast rapists to defeat the anti- gun crusaders.Less
This chapter shows how the Million Mom March helped parents, especially mothers, heal from the loss of a loved one to gun violence. It compares past maternalist movements to this one and shows the uneasy coexistence of feminism and maternalism. It explores how suburban mothers who were mostly white and urban mothers who were mostly black and Hispanic, came to believe that American society was sick, that all mothers were the antidote, and that together they could get gun control adopted and stop gun violence. While demonstrating the possibilities for coalition this chapter argues that the color-blind approach failed against the National Rifle Association, which evoked images negligent mothers, over-indulgent mothers, bad black mothers and criminal black beast rapists to defeat the anti- gun crusaders.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770552
- eISBN:
- 9780804775625
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770552.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter examines the archetypal description of the Jews in Christian imagination. It explains that the Jews are considered homologous to Satan and Eve by virtue of their embodiment of the “bad ...
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This chapter examines the archetypal description of the Jews in Christian imagination. It explains that the Jews are considered homologous to Satan and Eve by virtue of their embodiment of the “bad father” and the “bad mother.” The chapter analyzes the descriptive and narrative implications of these archetypal associations for the generative model of the Jews, and provides a summary of the invariant situations and motifs arising from the theological and archetypal structure of the “Jewish” image. It explains that these situations and motifs are the core narrative and descriptive features of the actor called “the Jews.”Less
This chapter examines the archetypal description of the Jews in Christian imagination. It explains that the Jews are considered homologous to Satan and Eve by virtue of their embodiment of the “bad father” and the “bad mother.” The chapter analyzes the descriptive and narrative implications of these archetypal associations for the generative model of the Jews, and provides a summary of the invariant situations and motifs arising from the theological and archetypal structure of the “Jewish” image. It explains that these situations and motifs are the core narrative and descriptive features of the actor called “the Jews.”
Laury Oaks
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897926
- eISBN:
- 9781479883073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897926.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines representations of pregnant women who cope with “unwanted newborns,” as seen in infant abandonment prevention advocacy, safe haven legal advocacy, and media coverage of women ...
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This chapter examines representations of pregnant women who cope with “unwanted newborns,” as seen in infant abandonment prevention advocacy, safe haven legal advocacy, and media coverage of women who have abandoned or safely surrendered newborns. Safe haven laws encourage “a subtle structure of surveillance over women, warning society to be alert to mothers who might abandon—or abort—their children.” The chapter considers how this surveillance structure is advanced by advocates who target teenagers and school-age populations. To understand how baby safe haven advocates have publicized the laws and educated the public about the need for them, the chapter looks at public service announcements, short videos, television and radio stories, websites, school curricula, and Facebook pages. It considers how these safe haven awareness campaigns promote visible images of good and bad mothers, and thus narrow ideas about the nature of maternal love and who deserves to be a mother.Less
This chapter examines representations of pregnant women who cope with “unwanted newborns,” as seen in infant abandonment prevention advocacy, safe haven legal advocacy, and media coverage of women who have abandoned or safely surrendered newborns. Safe haven laws encourage “a subtle structure of surveillance over women, warning society to be alert to mothers who might abandon—or abort—their children.” The chapter considers how this surveillance structure is advanced by advocates who target teenagers and school-age populations. To understand how baby safe haven advocates have publicized the laws and educated the public about the need for them, the chapter looks at public service announcements, short videos, television and radio stories, websites, school curricula, and Facebook pages. It considers how these safe haven awareness campaigns promote visible images of good and bad mothers, and thus narrow ideas about the nature of maternal love and who deserves to be a mother.
Natasha Du Rose
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781847426727
- eISBN:
- 9781447307839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426727.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Crime and Justice
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the research context in which contemporary drug policy has emerged by examining early constructions of female drug users in academic discourse, for instance as ...
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Chapter 2 provides an overview of the research context in which contemporary drug policy has emerged by examining early constructions of female drug users in academic discourse, for instance as pathological or as bad mothers. It is argued that academic or ‘expert’ discourses help to identify women’s drug use as a problem to be governed and contribute to the formation of social policies. Feminist challenges to traditional work on female users and the contribution this book will make is also discussed.Less
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the research context in which contemporary drug policy has emerged by examining early constructions of female drug users in academic discourse, for instance as pathological or as bad mothers. It is argued that academic or ‘expert’ discourses help to identify women’s drug use as a problem to be governed and contribute to the formation of social policies. Feminist challenges to traditional work on female users and the contribution this book will make is also discussed.
Molly Ladd-Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853236764
- eISBN:
- 9781846312816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853236764.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter illustrates the prevalence of a view which sees the parent, and especially the ‘bad mother’, as the enemy of the child, arguing that United States welfare policy has viewed family ...
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This chapter illustrates the prevalence of a view which sees the parent, and especially the ‘bad mother’, as the enemy of the child, arguing that United States welfare policy has viewed family problems as the consequence of parental, most often maternal, failure. It concentrates on the state of Minnesota to explore the place of ‘eugenic’ sterilisation in the history of American welfare. Surgical sterilisation grew as a critical part of the welfare system in Minnesota, which ordained its sterilisation law in 1925, after intensive lobbying by the state Eugenics Society. Its sterilisation programme could only be realised in the context of the ‘child protection’ and guardianship systems that developed out of the 1909 White House Conference on Children. Eugenic sterilisation served many functions within the welfare system of Minnesota, and became a form of birth control at a time when other types of contraception were unavailable.Less
This chapter illustrates the prevalence of a view which sees the parent, and especially the ‘bad mother’, as the enemy of the child, arguing that United States welfare policy has viewed family problems as the consequence of parental, most often maternal, failure. It concentrates on the state of Minnesota to explore the place of ‘eugenic’ sterilisation in the history of American welfare. Surgical sterilisation grew as a critical part of the welfare system in Minnesota, which ordained its sterilisation law in 1925, after intensive lobbying by the state Eugenics Society. Its sterilisation programme could only be realised in the context of the ‘child protection’ and guardianship systems that developed out of the 1909 White House Conference on Children. Eugenic sterilisation served many functions within the welfare system of Minnesota, and became a form of birth control at a time when other types of contraception were unavailable.
