'Failed' mothers,‘failed’ womxn: Demarcating normative mothering

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dc.contributor.authorMacleod CI
dc.contributor.authorFeltham-King T
dc.contributor.authorMavuso JM-JJ
dc.contributor.authorMorison T
dc.contributor.editorZuffrey, C
dc.contributor.editorBuchanan, F
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-06T22:37:03Z
dc.date.available2019-12-20
dc.date.available2023-08-06T22:37:03Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-09
dc.description"This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts, 2019, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138366268
dc.description.abstractIn this chapter, we show how the boundaries of acceptable mothering are demarcated and regulated through reference to the ‘Other’ (Woollett & Phoenix, 1997). Using examples of ‘womxn’ who refuse motherhood, terminate pregnancies and reproduce when considered to be too young, we outline how womxn who ‘fail’ at normative mothering or who deviate from expected reproductive decisions form the pathologised presence that pre-defines the absent trace of normative mothering and the successful accomplishment of womxnhood (Macleod, 2001). We use the term ‘womxn’ and ‘womxnhood’ to disrupt normative assumptions about gender and sex, here taken to be socially constructed, which write gender and sex onto individuals. In this chapter, the term ‘womxn’ denotes and recognises womxn-identifying persons with the biological capacity to become pregnant, including intersex and transgender individuals. We also use this term to foreground the experiences of womxn of colour, womxn from/living in the global South, trans, queer and intersex womxn, as well as all womxn-identifying persons who have been excluded from dominant constructions of ‘womanhood’ and feminist praxis on the subject (Ashlee, Zamora & Karikari, 2017; Merbruja, 2015).
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dc.description.place-of-publicationLondon
dc.edition.edition1
dc.format.extent30 - 43
dc.identifierhttps://www.routledge.com/Intersections-of-Mothering-Feminist-Accounts-1st-Edition/Zufferey-Buchanan/p/book/9781138366268
dc.identifierhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tracy_Morison/publication/338066991_Failed'_mothers_'failed'_womxn_Demarcating_normative_mothering/links/5dfc96454585159aa48aadd0/Failed-mothers-failed-womxn-Demarcating-normative-mothering.pdf
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dc.identifier.citationIntersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts, 2019, 1, pp. 30 - 43
dc.identifier.elements-id429186
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.isbn9781138366268
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/16820
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.isPartOfIntersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts
dc.relation.isPartOfInterdisciplinary Research in Motherhood
dc.subjectSocial Science
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectMotherhood
dc.subjectReproduction
dc.subjectChildfree
dc.subjectAbortion
dc.subjectTeenage motherhood
dc.subjectDerrida
dc.subjectAbsent Trace
dc.title'Failed' mothers,‘failed’ womxn: Demarcating normative mothering
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Psychology
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