Mothering Rhetorics
Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at how exploring mothering rhetorics the rhetorics of reproduction (rhetorics about the reproductive function of women/mothers) and reproducing rhetorics (the rhetorical reproduction of ideological systems and logics of contemporary culture) expand our understanding of mothering, motherhood, communication, and gender.
Mothering Rhetorics begins to fill this gap for scholars and teachers interested in the study of mothering rhetorics in their historical and contemporary permutations. The contributions explore the racialized rhetorical contexts of maternity; how fixing food is thought to fix families, while also regulating maternal activities and identity; how Black female breastfeeding activists resisted the exploitation of African-American mothers in Detroit; how women in pink-collar occupations both adhere to and challenge maternity leave discourses by rhetorically positioning their leaves as time off and (dis)ability; identifying verbal and nonverbal shaming practices related to unwed motherhood during the mid-twentieth century; and redefining alternative postpartum placenta practices.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Womens Studies in Communication.
Lynn OBrien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of the Womens, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, multiple book chapters, and has been published in a variety of feminist and communication journals.
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Contents
D. Lynn OBrien Hallstein
Sara Hayden
Amber E. Kinser
Megan Elizabeth Morrissey and Karen Y. Kimball
Patrice M. Buzzanell, Robyn V. Remke, Rebecca Meisenbach, Meina Liu, Venessa Bowers, and Cindy Conn
Heather Brook Adams
Elizabeth Dickinson, Karen Foss, and Charlotte Krolkke
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal Womens Studies in Communication volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
- Introduction: Mothering Rhetorics
- D. Lynn OBrien Hallstein
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 110
Chapter 1
- Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief: The Racialized Rhetorical Contexts of Maternity
- Sara Hayden
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 1128
Chapter 2
- Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal
- Amber E. Kinser
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 2947
Chapter 3
- #SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, Visibility, and the Exploitation of the Black Breast
- Megan Elizabeth Morrissey and Karen Y. Kimball
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 4866
Chapter 4
- Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability
- Patrice M. Buzzanell, Robyn V. Remke, Rebecca Meisenbach, Meina Liu, Venessa Bowers, and Cindy Conn
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 6790
Chapter 5
- Rhetorics of Unwed Motherhood and Shame
- Heather Brook Adams
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 91110
Chapter 6
- Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices
- Elizabeth Dickinson, Karen Foss, and Charlotte Krolkke
- Womens Studies in Communication, volume 40, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 111128
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Venessa Bowers is Clinical Social Worker Specialist for Eastern Shore Psychological Services, USA.
Heather Brook Adams is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.
Patrice M. Buzzanell is Chair and Professor of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida and Endowed Visiting Professor for the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Cindy Conn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management in the Love School of Business at Elon University, USA.
Elizabeth Dickinson is Clinical Associate Professor of Management and Corporate Communication in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She also is an affiliated Faculty Member in the Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Karen Foss is Professor Emeritus, Regents Professor, Presidential Teaching Fellow, and former Chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
Lynn OBrien Hallstein is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of the Womens, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, multiple book chapters, and has been published in a variety of feminist and communication journals.
Sara Hayden