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Women's Studies in Communication, 2007
This study sheds light on the difficulties some women report in their work relationships, what we... more This study sheds light on the difficulties some women report in their work relationships, what we call the shadow side. We argue that both our findings and speculation about structural issues suggest that women's role performance and individual behavior mix with masculine organizational norms in ways that may create a disjunction between feminine friendship expectations and gender roles and masculine organizational norms, and this disjunction leads to tension between some women in the workplace.
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19
White Second Wave Feminisms and Rich: Historic Feminist Matrophobia From Ongoing Silence to Popul... more White Second Wave Feminisms and Rich: Historic Feminist Matrophobia From Ongoing Silence to Popular Writers' Matrophobia Sisters, Daughters, and Feminist Maternal Scholars: Contemporary Matrophobia What's Wrong with a Little Lingering Matrophobia?: Rhetorical Consequences in Contemporary Analyses Purging Matrophobia: Theorizing a Matrophobic-Free Feminist Subject Position on Contemporary Maternity
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, 2019
This edited volume by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and Andrea O'Reilly makes an important contribution ... more This edited volume by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and Andrea O'Reilly makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on motherhood and academe. Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies and Possibilities is an insightful collection of essays that argues academic motherhood must be understood in temporal and conceptual relation to the Second Wave. Post-Second Wave academic mothering is challenging, in part due to cultural understandings of motherhood and womanhood. In the post-Second Wave context, working mothers are expected to successfully "have it all." In light of the explosive rhetoric of "intensive mothering" in current media coverage, this collection is unique. The discourses of "intensive mothering" and "new momism" shape the ways academic women are mothering and performing at their jobs. In the post-Second Wave, mothers in the academy face many challenges and this volume interrogates the reasons for these challenges-how we think about motherhood and academe-and offers coping strategies. The collection adds to previous work on mothering in academe, such as Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, and Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career. The editors gather an array of voices and perspectives on motherhood in academe while critically analyzing the institution of motherhood around specific themes of challenges, strategies, and possibilities. Several essays stand out as exceptional in their critique of the academy, such as "We Shoot Our
Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3 Chapter One: Public C... more Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist Successes Chapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning After Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public Discourses Part 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public Sphere Chapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of Choice Chapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of Choice Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive Choices Part 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and Choice Chapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to Motherhood Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose" Chapte...
Women's Studies in Communication, 2017
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative For Research and Community Involvement, Jan 11, 2006
Conceiving Intensive Mothering Key academically informedfeminist approaches to intensive motherin... more Conceiving Intensive Mothering Key academically informedfeminist approaches to intensive mothering continue to separate the ideologicalandpsychological in the analysis ofintensive mothering. In this essay, I argue that my analysir ofrhe Mommy Myth and Maternal Desire reveals the vestiges of a lingeringfear of the ideal "Mother"subjectposition within both texts thatperpetuate this split approach and will ultimately lead to feminisms' inability to theorize fully intensive mothering. I also suggest that, as a result, feminisms willbe unable t o theorize women's current split subjectivity and agency between the old '?deal"Mothersubjectposition anda newfeminist mothering subject position unless both institutional andpsychological approaches are integrated. I try to distinguish two meanings of motherhood, one superimposed on the other: the potentialrelationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children; and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential-and all women-shall remain under male control. (Rich, 1986: 13, italics in original) There is no doubt about it: maternity-both the institution of motherhood and everyday experiences of mothering-has come out of the closest for many contemporary feminist writers. Indeed, motherhood and mothering are "hot" topics in the popular press, with a diverse range of issues covered: the ways that legal institutions penalize women as mothers is addressed in Unbending Gender (Williams, 2000); the anger, frustration, and confusion many women feel once they become mothers are central concerns in The Bitch in the House (Hanauer, 2002); how women can achieve both a family and a career given the structure of professional institutions is the topic of Creatinga L 9 (Hewlett, 2003) and, finally, the economic costs women pay as a result of being the 96
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
The “big” question in Chapter 4 is, What’s wrong with a little lingering matrophobia? When both c... more The “big” question in Chapter 4 is, What’s wrong with a little lingering matrophobia? When both chapters 3 and 4 are read together, the “quick” answer is, the contemporary sisterly, daughterly, and new feminist maternal subject positions and lingering matrophobia embedded in all three have created important partial but problematic analyses of the contemporary feminist rhetorical and maternal contexts. The more detailed answer is as follows: Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layers of matrophobia, which are primarily but not exclusively founded on scholars’ simultaneous identification and disidentification with one part of Adrienne Rich’s two-part understanding of maternity as both institutionalized motherhood and the potential in mothering.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layer... more Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layers of matrophobia. These lingering layers are primarily, but not exclusively, founded on scholars’ simultaneous identification and disidentification with one part of Adrienne Rich’s two-part understanding of maternity as both institutionalized motherhood and the potential in mothering. The lingering layers of matrophobia that result have important and troubling consequences in terms of the contemporary relationship between feminism and maternity and for understandings of both the contemporary rhetorical and maternal situations feminists face. The focus of this chapter, then, is to detail those consequences and to reveal why the lingering matrophobia is so problematic.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
Chapter 2 reveals that contemporary popular writing on maternity is matrophobic in relation to se... more Chapter 2 reveals that contemporary popular writing on maternity is matrophobic in relation to second wave feminism, primarily by disidentifying with and blaming second wave feminism for contemporary women’s struggles in relation to maternity. As a result, popular writers also fuel both contemporary backlash strategies and the contemporary anti-motherhood demonization of feminism. While the popular writers do not identify as feminists when they acknowledge that they have benefited from second wave feminism, self-identified feminists are also exploring contemporary maternity and have rediscovered Adrienne Rich’s ideas in Of Woman Born in those explorations. Unfortunately, matrophobia is also present in feminist explorations of contemporary maternity, albeit inadvertently and in a different form from popular writers’ matrophobia. Thus, this chapter analyzes contemporary feminists’ matrophobia.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
As feminism moved through the 1980s and 1990s, white feminism shifted its focus to beginning to l... more As feminism moved through the 1980s and 1990s, white feminism shifted its focus to beginning to live with the successes of white second wave feminism. As a result, while the daughterly focus remained, little attention was given to motherhood and mothering. However, in the late 1990s, and especially after 2000, there was an explosion of both academic feminist and popular writing on contemporary maternity. Analyzing the academic work, which also initiated a rediscovery of Adrienne Rich, and the popular writing requires understanding the historical and rhetorical contexts of post-1970s second wave feminism that preceded both kinds of writing. More specifically, it is important to reread key rhetorical exigencies that kept 1980s and 1990s feminists primarily silent on maternity, prior to the explosion of academic and popular interest in contemporary maternity.
Women's Studies in Communication, 2007
This study sheds light on the difficulties some women report in their work relationships, what we... more This study sheds light on the difficulties some women report in their work relationships, what we call the shadow side. We argue that both our findings and speculation about structural issues suggest that women's role performance and individual behavior mix with masculine organizational norms in ways that may create a disjunction between feminine friendship expectations and gender roles and masculine organizational norms, and this disjunction leads to tension between some women in the workplace.
Encyclopedia of Motherhood
Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19
White Second Wave Feminisms and Rich: Historic Feminist Matrophobia From Ongoing Silence to Popul... more White Second Wave Feminisms and Rich: Historic Feminist Matrophobia From Ongoing Silence to Popular Writers' Matrophobia Sisters, Daughters, and Feminist Maternal Scholars: Contemporary Matrophobia What's Wrong with a Little Lingering Matrophobia?: Rhetorical Consequences in Contemporary Analyses Purging Matrophobia: Theorizing a Matrophobic-Free Feminist Subject Position on Contemporary Maternity
The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, 2019
This edited volume by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and Andrea O'Reilly makes an important contribution ... more This edited volume by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein and Andrea O'Reilly makes an important contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on motherhood and academe. Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context: Challenges, Strategies and Possibilities is an insightful collection of essays that argues academic motherhood must be understood in temporal and conceptual relation to the Second Wave. Post-Second Wave academic mothering is challenging, in part due to cultural understandings of motherhood and womanhood. In the post-Second Wave context, working mothers are expected to successfully "have it all." In light of the explosive rhetoric of "intensive mothering" in current media coverage, this collection is unique. The discourses of "intensive mothering" and "new momism" shape the ways academic women are mothering and performing at their jobs. In the post-Second Wave, mothers in the academy face many challenges and this volume interrogates the reasons for these challenges-how we think about motherhood and academe-and offers coping strategies. The collection adds to previous work on mothering in academe, such as Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, and Parenting and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career. The editors gather an array of voices and perspectives on motherhood in academe while critically analyzing the institution of motherhood around specific themes of challenges, strategies, and possibilities. Several essays stand out as exceptional in their critique of the academy, such as "We Shoot Our
Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3 Chapter One: Public C... more Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Section One: Mediated Images of Choice Chapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist Successes Chapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning After Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public Discourses Part 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public Sphere Chapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of Choice Chapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of Choice Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive Choices Part 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and Choice Chapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to Motherhood Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose" Chapte...
Women's Studies in Communication, 2017
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative For Research and Community Involvement, Jan 11, 2006
Conceiving Intensive Mothering Key academically informedfeminist approaches to intensive motherin... more Conceiving Intensive Mothering Key academically informedfeminist approaches to intensive mothering continue to separate the ideologicalandpsychological in the analysis ofintensive mothering. In this essay, I argue that my analysir ofrhe Mommy Myth and Maternal Desire reveals the vestiges of a lingeringfear of the ideal "Mother"subjectposition within both texts thatperpetuate this split approach and will ultimately lead to feminisms' inability to theorize fully intensive mothering. I also suggest that, as a result, feminisms willbe unable t o theorize women's current split subjectivity and agency between the old '?deal"Mothersubjectposition anda newfeminist mothering subject position unless both institutional andpsychological approaches are integrated. I try to distinguish two meanings of motherhood, one superimposed on the other: the potentialrelationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children; and the institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential-and all women-shall remain under male control. (Rich, 1986: 13, italics in original) There is no doubt about it: maternity-both the institution of motherhood and everyday experiences of mothering-has come out of the closest for many contemporary feminist writers. Indeed, motherhood and mothering are "hot" topics in the popular press, with a diverse range of issues covered: the ways that legal institutions penalize women as mothers is addressed in Unbending Gender (Williams, 2000); the anger, frustration, and confusion many women feel once they become mothers are central concerns in The Bitch in the House (Hanauer, 2002); how women can achieve both a family and a career given the structure of professional institutions is the topic of Creatinga L 9 (Hewlett, 2003) and, finally, the economic costs women pay as a result of being the 96
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
The “big” question in Chapter 4 is, What’s wrong with a little lingering matrophobia? When both c... more The “big” question in Chapter 4 is, What’s wrong with a little lingering matrophobia? When both chapters 3 and 4 are read together, the “quick” answer is, the contemporary sisterly, daughterly, and new feminist maternal subject positions and lingering matrophobia embedded in all three have created important partial but problematic analyses of the contemporary feminist rhetorical and maternal contexts. The more detailed answer is as follows: Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layers of matrophobia, which are primarily but not exclusively founded on scholars’ simultaneous identification and disidentification with one part of Adrienne Rich’s two-part understanding of maternity as both institutionalized motherhood and the potential in mothering.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layer... more Chapter 3 reveals that contemporary feminist analyses of maternity are thick with lingering layers of matrophobia. These lingering layers are primarily, but not exclusively, founded on scholars’ simultaneous identification and disidentification with one part of Adrienne Rich’s two-part understanding of maternity as both institutionalized motherhood and the potential in mothering. The lingering layers of matrophobia that result have important and troubling consequences in terms of the contemporary relationship between feminism and maternity and for understandings of both the contemporary rhetorical and maternal situations feminists face. The focus of this chapter, then, is to detail those consequences and to reveal why the lingering matrophobia is so problematic.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
Chapter 2 reveals that contemporary popular writing on maternity is matrophobic in relation to se... more Chapter 2 reveals that contemporary popular writing on maternity is matrophobic in relation to second wave feminism, primarily by disidentifying with and blaming second wave feminism for contemporary women’s struggles in relation to maternity. As a result, popular writers also fuel both contemporary backlash strategies and the contemporary anti-motherhood demonization of feminism. While the popular writers do not identify as feminists when they acknowledge that they have benefited from second wave feminism, self-identified feminists are also exploring contemporary maternity and have rediscovered Adrienne Rich’s ideas in Of Woman Born in those explorations. Unfortunately, matrophobia is also present in feminist explorations of contemporary maternity, albeit inadvertently and in a different form from popular writers’ matrophobia. Thus, this chapter analyzes contemporary feminists’ matrophobia.
White Feminists and Contemporary Maternity, 2010
As feminism moved through the 1980s and 1990s, white feminism shifted its focus to beginning to l... more As feminism moved through the 1980s and 1990s, white feminism shifted its focus to beginning to live with the successes of white second wave feminism. As a result, while the daughterly focus remained, little attention was given to motherhood and mothering. However, in the late 1990s, and especially after 2000, there was an explosion of both academic feminist and popular writing on contemporary maternity. Analyzing the academic work, which also initiated a rediscovery of Adrienne Rich, and the popular writing requires understanding the historical and rhetorical contexts of post-1970s second wave feminism that preceded both kinds of writing. More specifically, it is important to reread key rhetorical exigencies that kept 1980s and 1990s feminists primarily silent on maternity, prior to the explosion of academic and popular interest in contemporary maternity.