Motherhood in Feminist Theory  

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Gross, Emma

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Affilia vol. 13 no. 3 (Aug. 1998), page 269-272.
Fulltext: 269.pdf (217.78KB)

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Feminist theorizing about motherhood, encompassing ideas that feminist social workers may find fruitful for practice, is too low-profile these days. For feminist practitioners, the silence is disconcerting because so much of our practice is with families, particularly women in families. One reason for this low visibility is that the early feminist writings on mothers and mothering, although often thoughtful, were intensely gloomy and painfully critical of women’s choices. White feminists, for example, reflected a sense of loss, of betrayal by their mothers, whom they viewed as complicit in their own oppression. In contrast, women of color were more likely to respect their mothers’ struggles while they were keenly aware of the price their mothers had paid to survive.

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