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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0814751199
ISBN-13: 9780814751190
Nov 1997
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
411 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A collection of 26 academic essays which explore ways that politics and legislation, acting on a tendency in American culture to blame mothers for many ills, undermine and threaten mothers, motherhood, and, ultimately, society. The essays range from a survey of articles from mental health journals, an essay on Zoe Baird, and analyses of legislative "reform" of the child welfare system, especially the 1996 Personal Responsibility Act which ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
| Size | | Length: | 411 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
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A mixture of case studies, primary sources (Dr. Herman Bundesen on 'The Overprotective Mother,' Dan Greenburg on Jewish mothers), historical essays, and commentary by such writers as Betty Jean Lifton and Katha Pollitt, [this volume] stresses the complexity (and long history) of scapegoating mothers to avoid dealing with serious social problems.
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Is it true that mothers blame themselves more than fathers do? Or that we blame mothers more than fathers, or more than anything else? 'Fathers, schools, television--and the environment outside the home--get little if any attention in this frenzy of attribution,' say Umansky and Ladd-Taylor. But it is not hard to find examples to show that they are wrong. 'When in fact we need to examine poverty, racism, the paucity of meaningful work at a living wage, the lack of access to daycare, anti-feminism, and a host of other problems, let us not be diverted by "bad" mothers,' they ask. But might we not as justly ask that we should not be diverted by 'bad' fathers, or by 'bad' schools, or 'bad' television? And who is being diverted, in any case?
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