Rachel Brooks and Paul Hodkinson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781529205961
- eISBN:
- 9781529205985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529205961.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
This final chapter explores equal and primary caregiver fathers’ overall reflections on their journeys and future horizons, before outlining broader conclusions and recommendations from the Sharing ...
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This final chapter explores equal and primary caregiver fathers’ overall reflections on their journeys and future horizons, before outlining broader conclusions and recommendations from the Sharing Care study. Conclusions centre on the importance of circumstances in enabling fathers’ roles and horizons to change, and on the extent to which extensive practical involvement in caregiving had prompted further transformation in masculinities and fatherly identities. The authors also emphasise challenges and barriers faced by fathers that had sometimes placed limits on their caregiving and that centred on deep-rooted assumptions of default maternal responsibility that continue to manifest themselves in policy, practice, interactions and values. A set of recommendations on how care sharing might be made easier for fathers is outlined.Less
This final chapter explores equal and primary caregiver fathers’ overall reflections on their journeys and future horizons, before outlining broader conclusions and recommendations from the Sharing Care study. Conclusions centre on the importance of circumstances in enabling fathers’ roles and horizons to change, and on the extent to which extensive practical involvement in caregiving had prompted further transformation in masculinities and fatherly identities. The authors also emphasise challenges and barriers faced by fathers that had sometimes placed limits on their caregiving and that centred on deep-rooted assumptions of default maternal responsibility that continue to manifest themselves in policy, practice, interactions and values. A set of recommendations on how care sharing might be made easier for fathers is outlined.
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195177862
- eISBN:
- 9780199870189
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177862.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter draws on traditional constructions of maternal responsibilities in constructing a public role as defender of white supremacy. It argues that women had a duty to campaign against racial ...
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This chapter draws on traditional constructions of maternal responsibilities in constructing a public role as defender of white supremacy. It argues that women had a duty to campaign against racial integration in order to protect the welfare of current and future generations of white southerners. It notes that this increased public activism on the part of white southern women was by implication a criticism of the incompetence of the male power structure. It shows that white women served more than a rhetorical purpose for the segregationist cause as passive victims in need of male protection.Less
This chapter draws on traditional constructions of maternal responsibilities in constructing a public role as defender of white supremacy. It argues that women had a duty to campaign against racial integration in order to protect the welfare of current and future generations of white southerners. It notes that this increased public activism on the part of white southern women was by implication a criticism of the incompetence of the male power structure. It shows that white women served more than a rhetorical purpose for the segregationist cause as passive victims in need of male protection.
Katharine Dow
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691167480
- eISBN:
- 9781400881062
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691167480.003.0010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how surrogacy troubles ideas about motherhood, maternal responsibility, and maternal bonding. In particular, it considers how ideas about altruism in surrogacy relate not only ...
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This chapter examines how surrogacy troubles ideas about motherhood, maternal responsibility, and maternal bonding. In particular, it considers how ideas about altruism in surrogacy relate not only to individual ethical decision making but also to a sense of community and shared identity. One of the practical problems that surrogacy presents is the risk that the surrogate mother might decide to keep the baby. This is also an ethical question of whether or not surrogate mothers should form a bond with the children they carry for intended parents. The chapter explores how people in Spey Bay drew on the maternal bond to make nuanced claims about motherhood and the ethics of surrogacy to show how “natural” concepts like the maternal bond are used contingently and strategically in ethical judgements about reproduction and parenting. Finally, it uses the example of surrogacy to analyze the salience of altruism as a site of ethical value.Less
This chapter examines how surrogacy troubles ideas about motherhood, maternal responsibility, and maternal bonding. In particular, it considers how ideas about altruism in surrogacy relate not only to individual ethical decision making but also to a sense of community and shared identity. One of the practical problems that surrogacy presents is the risk that the surrogate mother might decide to keep the baby. This is also an ethical question of whether or not surrogate mothers should form a bond with the children they carry for intended parents. The chapter explores how people in Spey Bay drew on the maternal bond to make nuanced claims about motherhood and the ethics of surrogacy to show how “natural” concepts like the maternal bond are used contingently and strategically in ethical judgements about reproduction and parenting. Finally, it uses the example of surrogacy to analyze the salience of altruism as a site of ethical value.
Miranda R. Waggoner
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520288065
- eISBN:
- 9780520963115
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520288065.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Increasingly, medical and public health recommendations urge all women of reproductive age to minimize health risks to future pregnancies even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Such advice is ...
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Increasingly, medical and public health recommendations urge all women of reproductive age to minimize health risks to future pregnancies even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Such advice is predicated on the belief that good pre-pregnancy care will ensure better birth outcomes in the United States. This pre-pregnancy model of health care effectively designates a “zero trimester” in which women are expected, before conception, to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction. Some health experts believe that pre-pregnancy care will solve many medical and social ills that were not addressed by the prenatal care model that dominated medical thinking in the twentieth century. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s bodies. In The Zero Trimester, Miranda Waggoner traces the shifting boundaries of reproductive risk and maternal responsibility in America to understand how and why the task of perfecting pregnancies now encompasses the whole of a woman’s reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester arose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women’s lives in the twenty-first century. The emergence of the zero trimester is not simply about medical and health concerns; it is also, more broadly, about how cultural power and social ideologies can shape population health imperatives and women’s bodily experiences.Less
Increasingly, medical and public health recommendations urge all women of reproductive age to minimize health risks to future pregnancies even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Such advice is predicated on the belief that good pre-pregnancy care will ensure better birth outcomes in the United States. This pre-pregnancy model of health care effectively designates a “zero trimester” in which women are expected, before conception, to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction. Some health experts believe that pre-pregnancy care will solve many medical and social ills that were not addressed by the prenatal care model that dominated medical thinking in the twentieth century. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s bodies. In The Zero Trimester, Miranda Waggoner traces the shifting boundaries of reproductive risk and maternal responsibility in America to understand how and why the task of perfecting pregnancies now encompasses the whole of a woman’s reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester arose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women’s lives in the twenty-first century. The emergence of the zero trimester is not simply about medical and health concerns; it is also, more broadly, about how cultural power and social ideologies can shape population health imperatives and women’s bodily experiences.
Frances Babbage
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719067525
- eISBN:
- 9781781701782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719067525.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
Re-visions of myth in the contemporary theatre now assume an extraordinary range of forms and test the boundaries of performance as forcefully as they interrogate the myths themselves. Confining the ...
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Re-visions of myth in the contemporary theatre now assume an extraordinary range of forms and test the boundaries of performance as forcefully as they interrogate the myths themselves. Confining the focus of this book more or less exclusively to the work of playwrights has correspondingly meant marginalising the great quantity of activity in the field which falls outside that frame. Myth re-vision in forms other than scripted drama, staged in contexts beyond theatre venues, is by no means new – even if late twentieth- and twenty-first century developments in site-specific performance, installation, live art and more have shaped source materials in increasingly startling and unpredictable ways. In July 2005, the German writer-actress Gilla Cremer presented m.e.d.e.a., the last part in her trilogy of solo shows reflecting on continuities and ruptures in German social history through the last century. It is perhaps ironic that a re-vision of the Medea narrative, a myth widely interpreted as an attack on ‘family values’, should be so decisively structured by the sense of maternal responsibility.Less
Re-visions of myth in the contemporary theatre now assume an extraordinary range of forms and test the boundaries of performance as forcefully as they interrogate the myths themselves. Confining the focus of this book more or less exclusively to the work of playwrights has correspondingly meant marginalising the great quantity of activity in the field which falls outside that frame. Myth re-vision in forms other than scripted drama, staged in contexts beyond theatre venues, is by no means new – even if late twentieth- and twenty-first century developments in site-specific performance, installation, live art and more have shaped source materials in increasingly startling and unpredictable ways. In July 2005, the German writer-actress Gilla Cremer presented m.e.d.e.a., the last part in her trilogy of solo shows reflecting on continuities and ruptures in German social history through the last century. It is perhaps ironic that a re-vision of the Medea narrative, a myth widely interpreted as an attack on ‘family values’, should be so decisively structured by the sense of maternal responsibility.
