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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 child, one family at a time.Author Chris Bobel profiles some thirty natural mothers, probing into their choices and asking whether they are reforming or conforming to women's traditional role. Bobel's subjects say that they have chosen to follow their nature rather than social imperatives. Embracing such lifestyle alternatives as voluntary simplicity and attachment parenting, they place family above status and personal achievement. Bobel illuminates the paradoxes of natural mothering, the ways in which these women resist the trappings of upward mobility but acquiesce to a kind of biological determinism and conventional gender scripts.

Table of 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

About the Author :
Chris Bobel is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Review :
"Motherhood in America is a paradox-sentimentalized-devalued at once. The 'natural mothers' Bobel researched show us not just their particular resolutions of the paradox, but clarify the larger problems of mothering in this difficult world. Bobel has made a wonderful contribution to our understanding of American motherhood in all its forms." -Barbara Katz Rothman, Professor of Sociology, CUNY and author of Recreating Motherhood "Chris Bobel, an associate professor of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts, takes a sociologist's eye and a feminist's heart to her study of a certain kind of parenting in The Paradox of Natural Motherhood. Through case studies of five women and interviews with dozens more, Bobel explores (admiringly and critically) how modern women can make seemingly old-fashioned choices to be full-time moms, to home-school their children or to practice alternative medicine." -Publishers Weekly "Through respectful interviews and thoughtful analysis, Chris Bobel has produced a an intriguing study of mothers who engage in home schooling, alternative health care and other 'natural' maternal practices for the sake of their children and in the hope bringing about political change. A fascinating and disturbing book." -Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace


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  • ISBN-13: 9781566399067
  • Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • ISBN-10: 1566399068
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 127 mm


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