Ideological Analysis of Breastfeeding in Contemporary America - Disciplining the Maternal Body

This book explores the breast-is-best discursive formation of hegemonic motherhood that limits possibilities and polices parents. Scholars of feminism, motherhood, gender, and discursive and/or narrative methodologies will find this book useful in exploring the complex systems that control the meanings of motherhood, family, and society.

Sommario

Chapter 1: Discourse, Ideology, and Breastfeeding: The Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation and the Construction of Hegemonic Mothering

Chapter 2: Building the Breast-is-Best Discursive Formation: A Genealogy of Hegemonic Motherhood

Chapter 3: Creating the Gaze: The Birth of the Medi-Institutionalization of Breastfeeding

Chapter 4: Disciplining the Maternal Body: Discourses for Expecting Moms

Chapter 5: Disciplining the Marginalized Maternal Body: Discourses of Race, Class, and Privilege

Chapter 6: Talking Back: The Discourses of Lived Experience

Chapter 7: Talking Back and Taking Back: Discourses of Resistance and Change

Info autore

Loreen Olson is professor of communication at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Jenni Simon is lecturer at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Riassunto

This book explores the breast-is-best discursive formation of hegemonic motherhood that limits possibilities and polices parents. Scholars of feminism, motherhood, gender, and discursive and/or narrative methodologies will find this book useful in exploring the complex systems that control the meanings of motherhood, family, and society.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Loreen N. Olson, Loreen N. Simon Olson, Olson Loreen N., Jenni M. Simon
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498531290
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3129-0
• Pagine: 152
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, breastfeeding discourse, discourse, discursive formations, feminism, Foucault, hegemonic motherhood, heuristic of the natural, infant feeding, maternity, motherhood, power, rhetoric, surveillance, Wom, Communication Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc