Beschreibung:
The Political Uses of Motherhood in America investigates the under-researched topic of maternal frames in contemporary women's political action, placing the motherhood frame and its usage in service of collective action at the center of its analysis.
1. Introduction. 2. The Uses of Motherhood in American Politics. 3. Motherhood Makes Strange Bedfellows: An Overview of Politically Active Mothers Groups. 4. Origins of Action: Founding Motivations. 5. Grieving Mothers, Anchor Babies and Time out Chairs: Ideological Variation in Political Uses of Motherhood. 6. The Possibilities and Perils of Political Motherhood.