The paradox of natural mothering / Chris Bobel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bobel, Chris, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers--United States--Attitudes.

Mothers.

Homemakers--United States--Attitudes.

Homemakers.

Alternative lifestyles--United States.

Alternative lifestyles.

Childbirth at home--United States.

Childbirth at home.

Home schooling--United States.

Home schooling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Single or married, working mothers are, if not the norm, no longer exceptional. These days, women who stay at home to raise their children seem to be making a radical lifestyle choice. Indeed, the women at the center of The Paradox of Natural Mothering have renounced consumerism and careerism in order to reclaim home and family. These natural mothers favor parenting practices that set them apart from the mainstream: home birth, extended breast feeding, home schooling and natural health care. Regarding themselves as part of a movement, natural mothers believe they are changing society one

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Five Women, Five Stories; 2. Female Moral Reform and the Maternal Politics of Accommodation; 3. A Closer Look: The Ideological Components of Natural Mothering; 4. Interrogating the Ideology of Natural Mothering: Choice, Nature, and Inevitability; 5. Resisting Culture, Embracing Nature: Natural Mothering and Control; 6. Natural Mothering: Social Change or Narcissistic Retreat?; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: On Being a (Quasi) Natural Mother Studying Natural Mothers; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (207-216) and index.

ISBN:

9786612658440

9781282658448

1282658441

9781439905265

1439905266

OCLC:

646067914