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Informationen zum Autor Sara Hayden is professor of communication studies at the University of Montana. D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein is assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston University. Klappentext Contemplating Maternity explore how discourses of choice shape and are shaped by women's identities and experiences as (non)mothers and how those same discourses affect and reflect private practices and public policies related to reproduction and motherhood. This volume is unique because it investigates discourses of choice across the arc of maternity and as enacted through various (non)maternal subject positions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist Successes Chapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning After Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public Discourses Part 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public Sphere Chapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of Choice Chapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of Choice Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive Choices Part 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and Choice Chapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to Motherhood Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose" Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: The In/Fertile, Un/Natural Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) Choice Part 14 Section Four: Working with Choice Chapter 15 Chapter Ten: The Invisible Politics of 'Choice' in the Workplace: Naming the Informal Parenting Support System Chapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Cutting the Meeting Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity Leave Chapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Total Motherhood and Having it All: Reproduction, Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police Officers Part 18 Section Five: Ongoing Choices Chapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Purposefully Childless Good Women Chapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: What Men Say About Women: Fathers Contemplate Work Family Choices and Motherhood Chapter 21 Chapter Fifteen: Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism...
