Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood by Shelley M Park

Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood by Shelley M Park

Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of "good" mothering. Bridging the gap between feminist studies of motherhood and queer theory, Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood articulates a provocative philosophy of queer kinship that need not be rooted in lesbian or gay sexual identities. Working from an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates feminist philosophy and queer, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, Shelley M. Park offers a powerful critique of an ideology she terms monomaternalism. Despite widespread cultural insistence that every child should have one-and only one-"real" mother, many contemporary family constellations do not fit this mandate. Park highlights the negative consequences of this ideology and demonstrates how families created through open adoption, same-sex parenting, divorce, and plural marriage can be sites of resistance. Drawing from personal experiences as both an adoptive and a biological mother and juxtaposing these autobiographical reflections with critical readings of cultural texts representing multi-mother families, Park advocates a new understanding of postmodern families as potentially queer coalitional assemblages held together by a mixture of affection and critical reflection premised on difference.

Shelley M. Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida.

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ISBN 13	9781438447162
ISBN 10	1438447167
Title	Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Author	Shelley M Park
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	2014-01-02
Number of pages	318
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