Mother's Choice
Author | : Agbo Areo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Blacks |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Agbo Areo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Blacks |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Mattes, L.C.S.W. |
Publisher | : Harmony |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1994-05-10 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0812922468 |
The first handbook for the paoidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice.
Author | : Amrita Nandy |
Publisher | : Zubaan |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2017-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9385932497 |
How can women live fully? If autonomy is critical for humans, why do women have little or no choice vis-à-vis motherhood? Do women know they have a choice, if they do? How 'free' are these choices in a context where the self is socially mired and deeply enmeshed into the familial? What are implications of motherhood on how human relatedness and belonging are defined? These questions underlie Amrita Nandy's remarkable research on motherhood as an institution, one that conflates 'woman' with 'mother' and 'personal' with 'political'. As the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged norm of 'normal' female lives, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers—symbolic and corporeal. Even though the ideology of pronatalism and motherhood reinforce reproductive technology and vice versa, the care work of mothering suffers political neglect and economic devaluation. However, motherhood (and non-motherhood) is not just physiological. As the pivot to a web of heteronormative institutions (such as marriage and the family), motherhood bears an overwhelming and decisive influence on women's lives. Against the weight of traditional and contemporary histories, socio-political discourse and policies, this study explores how women, as embodiments of multiple identities, could live stigma-free, 'authentic' lives without having to abandon reproductive 'self'-determination. Published by Zubaan.
Author | : Paul D. Meier |
Publisher | : Baker Publishing Group (MI) |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1989-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780801061455 |
Author | : Mother's Choice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Unmarried mothers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bernice L. Hausman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135208271 |
Mother's Milk examines why nursing a baby is an ideologically charged experience in contemporary culture. Drawing upon medical studies, feminist scholarship, anthropological literature, and an intimate knowledge of breastfeeding itself, Bernice Hausman demonstrates what is at stake in mothers' infant feeding choices--economically, socially, and in terms of women's rights. Breastfeeding controversies, she argues, reveal social tensions around the meaning of women's bodies, the authority of science, and the value of maternity in American culture. A provocative and multi-faceted work, Mother's Milk will be of interest to anyone concerned with the politics of women's embodiment.
Author | : Kristin Noel Fischer |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-11-25 |
Genre | : Families |
ISBN | : 9781503328747 |
For thirty years, Nadine Kingsley has kept a heart-wrenching secret. When a letter arrives threatening to reveal the truth that could destroy her tight-knit family, Nadine embarks on a difficult journey to explain her painful decision, especially to her youngest daughter, Autumn. Meanwhile, Autumn Anderson, Speech Pathologist and mother of two, is struggling in her marriage. The discovery of a troubling letter addressed to her mother disrupts her already complicated life, leading Autumn to question what she's always believed. When the unthinkable happens, Autumn digs deeper into her family's past and unravels a tangled web of lies and deception surrounding her own birth. Meeting the one person her mother entrusted with her secret brings Autumn face-to-face with an unexpected and shocking revelation. A Mother's Choice is a fast-paced, uplifting, emotional read, full of family drama, love, hope, and forgiveness.
Author | : Rosanna Hertz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0195341406 |
A unique window on the future of the family, this book offers a gold mine of insight and reassurance for any woman contemplating having children outside of marriage.
Author | : Mikki Morrissette |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780618833320 |
The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming a mother--includes the essential tools needed to decide whether to take this step, information on how best to follow through, and insight about answering the child's questions and needs over time. Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life partner), will become the indispensable tool for women looking for both support and insight. Based on extensive up-to-date research, advice from child experts and family therapists, as well as interviews with more than one hundred single women, this book explores common questions and concerns of women facing this decision, including: - Can I afford to do this? - Should I wait longer to see if life turns a new corner? - How do Choice Mothers handle the stress of solo parenting? - What the research says about growing up in a single-parent household - How to answer a child's "daddy" questions - The facts about adoption, anonymous donor insemination, and finding a known donor - How the children of pioneering Choice Mothers feel about their lives Written in a lively style that never sugarcoats or sweeps problems under the rug, Choosing Single Motherhood covers the topic clearly, concisely, and with a great deal of heart.
Author | : Fibian Lukalo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000481131 |
This ground-breaking book opens new horizons in understanding educational decision-making and how schooling patterns are shaped by, and reshape, rural communities. It provides a humane portrait of the struggles faced by mothers in rural Kenya to educate their children, despite the ‘free education policy’. Based on a prize-winning study examining mothers’ attitudes to education in a rural Kenyan community, this vividly nuanced ethnographic work draws upon African feminist perspectives to describe the livelihoods and aspirations of 32 mothers responsible for over 180 children. It explores the effects of mothers’ school histories and the constraining effects of land practices and patriarchal culture on their actions. Their school choice and engagement strategies reflect different facilitating environments, their educational values, the use of social mothering practices and reliance on kinship reciprocity. The findings illustrate the importance of recognising the diversity of mothers’ situations within this small community and the pressures they face to be ‘good mothers’ who school their children. Mothers and Schooling highlights the importance of mothers’ educational agency and is essential reading for anthropologists of education, those working in gender studies, poverty alleviation strategists, educational researchers, teachers and policy-makers who wish to improve the success of Education for All for the children of women living in Southern rural poverty.