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The Juggling Mother : Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety

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  • Publisher:
    UBC Press, 2020
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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    2020
    Summary:

    Who isthe juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Motherexplores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversial case that mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.

    Original Publisher: [S.l.], UBC Press
    Language(s): English