scholarly journals Black mothers and attachment parenting: A black feminist analysis of intensive mothering in Britain and CanadaBy PatriciaHamilton. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781529207934, 213 pp., $92 USD, £60 GPD (hb)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jen Pylypa
Keyword(s):  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
Attachment Parenting

Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Attachment Parenting ◽  
Outstanding Work

This outstanding work examines black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting and shows how it both undermines and reflects neoliberalism. Unique in its intersectional analysis, it fills a gap in the literature, drawing on black feminist theorizing to examine intensive mothering practices and policies.

Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Intensive Mothering ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Attachment Parenting

Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises natural activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies. Examining black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting, the book shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, the book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies.

A Black Feminist Analysis of Responses to War, Racism, and Repression

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 501-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assata Zerai ◽  
Zakia Salime
Keyword(s):  
Black Feminist ◽  
Feminist Analysis

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
The State ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Attachment Parenting

This chapter introduces the attachment parenting (AP) phenomenon from the perspectives of black mothers. It reviews insights that the narratives of black mothers offer about the contemporary and particular experience of motherhood. It also analyzes AP journeys from the extreme practice of privileged white hippies to an increasingly accepted and influential dogma in the policies of the state and medical professionals. The chapter talks about the disruption of dominant construction of good mothering as the province of only white, middle-class women through the engagements of black mothers. It documents the diverse ways black women use AP to assert themselves as good mothers.

scholarly journals Formerly Incarcerated Black Mothers Matter Too: Resisting Social Constructions of Motherhood

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Mitchell ◽  
Jaya B. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Social Constructions ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Semistructured Interviews

Mass incarceration as a system of racialized and gendered social control has disproportionately impacted Black women, many of whom are mothers. Contrary to dominant social constructions of motherhood, these women employ their own strategies of mothering unique to their lived experiences. This study relies on interview data to understand Black women’s motherhood experiences post-incarceration. Drawing from five semistructured interviews of Black mothers across a large urban area in Texas, we argue for more critical, qualitative research of formerly incarcerated Black women, grounded in Black feminist theory (BFT).

scholarly journals Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Sula and A Mercy: Rethinking (M)Othering

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Natália Fontes de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Mother ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Biological Determinants

Motherhood tends to elicit strong feelings in women as well as a passionate rhetoric in our cultural discourse. Daughters have extensively been the focus of studies about mother-daughter bonds. Surprisingly, much less attention has been given to mother figures. By tracing the theme of motherhood in Sula (1973) and A Mercy (2009), I investigate how Toni Morrison rewrites the experiences of black mothers during slavery and its aftermath in the United States. Drawing mainly on feminist and black feminist theories, I explore, through literary analysis, how motherhood assumes various forms in both novels. The comparative analysis of Sula and A Mercy challenges distorted views commonly associated with the black mother and extends notions of mothering beyond biological determinants.

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