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In her book Motherhood in Black and White: Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 (Cornell, 2000) she traces the history of liberalism between the eras of the New Deal and Great Society, and argues that central to its development were conservative gender ideologies, which perpetuated the stereotypes of bad mothering by domineering "black matriarchs" and bad white "moms".
This results in the “motherhood penalty” — the fact that women’s pay decreases once they become mothers. According to the American Association of University Women, mothers make 70 cents ...
They’re told that motherhood is the “most important job in the world” and face accusations of living “meaningless” lives. Percent of American women, ages 18 to 44, without children 40 50% 45 2014 2010 2006 2002 1998 1994 1990
It centers on the language of motherhood to justify women's political activities, actions and validate state or public policies. [2] Maternalism is an extension of "empowered motherhood." [ 3 ] It defines itself as the extension of feminine moral values of nurturance and care and the home's social caring into a larger community. [ 3 ]
It consists of three interconnected categories of inquiry: motherhood as institution, motherhood as experience, and motherhood as identity or subjectivity. [2] Motherhood studies is often referred to as a feminist practice. Feminist mothering critiques the sexist and patriarchal values that contemporary society upholds. [3]
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A re-invigorated motherhood, the natural occupation for virtually all women, could serve as a buttress against all the destabilizing elements in Canada." [ 7 ] The growth of maternal feminism at the expense of the new woman in Britain and her colonies may have been due in part to the rapid expansion of the British empire after 1870.
But my research about motherhood in the animal kingdom taught me that maternal instinct is a long-standing myth, created by men, that reduces females to identikit automatons and belittles the ...