scholarly journals The In/Visibility of Mothering Against the Norm in Francophone Contexts: Private and Public Discourses in the Mediation of “Natural Parenting”

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Pasche Guignard
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
First Century ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Online Mediation

Mothers who engage in “natural parenting,” an unconventional style of parenting in Francophone contexts, use online media, and in particular online forums, as a source of information, as a place for discussing the variety of authentic maternal experiences, and as a virtual site of community building around shared practices, values, and worldviews. This contribution looks at the ways in which twenty-first-century online mediation participates in the blurring of private/public boundaries in the domain of parenting and how this affects parents who mother outside of the norm, following environmentalist worldviews. It also investigates the association of natural parenting and religion, and the articulations between public and private discourses about institutional motherhood and mothers’ experiences.Les mères qui pratiquent le « parentage naturel », un style de parentage nonconventionnel dans des contextes francophones, utilisent les médias en ligne, et en particulier les forums, comme source d’information, comme un endroit où discuter la diversité des expériences maternelles authentiques, et comme un site virtuel de construction communautaire autour de pratiques, valeurs et visions du monde partagées. Cette contribution examine comment la médiation en ligne rend plus floues les frontières entre public et privé dans le domaine du parentage et comment ceci affecte les personnes qui parentent en dehors des normes, suivant des visions du monde écologistes. Cet article examine aussi l’association entre la parentage naturel et religion, ainsi que les articulations entre discours publics et privés sur la maternité en tant qu’institution et les expériences des mères elles-mêmes.

scholarly journals Beyond black and white: heibaika, neuroparenting, and lay neuroscience

BioSocieties ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia-shin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Postpartum Care ◽  
First Century ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Interview Analysis

AbstractHeibaika (Mandarin for black-and-white cards) are tools that Taiwanese parents use for infants below 3 months old. These cards are claimed to stimulate vision and enhance the brain. Although the scientific efficacy of heibaika is questionable, the wide circulation of these cards illustrates the ways some try to urge laypeople to imagine and picture the infant brain. Thus, the use of heibaika constitutes a good example of neuroparenting and neuroculture, where flourishing neuroscience transforms the parenting culture. In the present study, multiple methodologies are applied, and the emergence of heibaika is identified as a twenty-first century phenomenon popularised by online forums and postpartum care centres, among many other channels. Heibaika are contextualised in the globalisation of neuroparenting through translation since the 1990s and the rising anxiety of contemporary Taiwanese parents. Through interview analysis, parents are classified into believers, sceptics, and cautious experimenters. Their anticipations and worries are further elaborated. The paper concludes by highlighting its three major contributions: the importance of studying lay neuroscience as a way to rethink and problematise the boundary between science and culture, the enrichment of the concept of neuroparenting, and the emphasis on the dimension of globalisation and knowledge transmission.

Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Fifty Shades Of Grey

Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. This book brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine. As these chapters show, the imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape. The book sheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism.

Facts, Alternative Facts and Patent Literature

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
David Segal
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
First Century ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Kurt Gödel ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Patent Literature ◽  
Patent Documents ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Source Of Information

The mathematician Kurt Gödel showed in his Incompleteness Theorem in the early 1930s that there are some statements in mathematics that are true but cannot be proven. Whether statements are true is important in the twenty-first century, an age of ‘fake news’ and alternative facts. Patent documents are true and accurate as they are examined and can be challenged for accuracy. This chapter outlines the patenting procedure. It also highlights the role of patents as a source of information alongside other sources. Accurate and true information is important for people with interests in engineering, physical sciences and life sciences. Patent infringement and patent trolls (non-practicing entities) are described. The following technical areas are grouped together to describe how they developed over time and how they may develop in the twenty-first century: communications, computing including quantum computing, life sciences including gene editing (CRISPR), transport and unexpected consequences of technological change.

scholarly journals The extent of happiness in the Palestinian society and its relationship to some varied variables at the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century - A field study applied to a sample of the population of the Palestinian community in Tubas: مدى وجود السعادة في داخل المجتمع الفلسطيني وعلاقتها ببعض المتغيرات المتنوعة في مطلع العقد الثالث من القرن الحادي والعشرين - دراسة ميدانية مطبقة على عينة من سكان المجتمع الفلسطيني في مدينة طوباس – فلسطين

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelmajid Nayif Alawneh
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Third ◽  
A Value ◽  
Palestinian Society ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Practical Field

The aim of this research is to study the issue of the extent of happiness within the Palestinian society and its relationship to some varied variables in the current time period which is the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century. The researcher used the descriptive analytical method and the questionnaire tool. The entire current research community represented by the population of one of the Palestinian cities in northern Palestine, as demonstrated by the characteristics of this sample, the nature of the characteristics of the Palestinian society is represented by the high percentage of males versus females and the rise of the small age group and unmarried Among those with low reproductive degrees, those with a bachelor’s degree, and those with low economic, health and family conditions, in addition to the emergence of social problems and violence in a mostly low manner, besides that the emergence of happiness was addressed within five important areas of life, and it appeared that its presence within the Palestinian society It came with a low degree, as its total value reached by (59.2%). As for the detailed areas in which happiness appeared on an average in the Palestinian society, it came to both the health field which came in at (66.4%) and the practical field which came with a value of (63.3%) ) And the behavioral field (Naf C), which came with a value of (60.7%), and these three areas are considered to be of the average degree in the presence of happiness within them as it appeared from the results of this research, in addition to other fields, namely, the societal field, which appeared with a low value (54.3%) and the political field, which appeared at a low rate as well At a value of (51.1%). As for the relationship between the variables of this research, a strong and statistically significant relationship emerged between each of the sexes, age groups, family status, number of family members, educational, economic, and health statuses and between areas of happiness within the Palestinian society that are represented in the health field, the practical field, the behavioral (psychological) domain and the field Societal and political realm. There was also a strong and statistically significant relationship between the extent of the existence of social problems and violence within the Palestinian society and the existence of happiness among the residents of this community, and at the end of the research a number of recommendations were made at the public and private levels, the most important of which was the need to work to find recreational programs by Public and private institutions in society, given that recreational behavior increases the happiness of the individual and the group together, and the need to increase faith and strengthen religious faith among individuals within families in this society, specifically in this period.

Mothering against motherhood: doula work, xenohospitality and the idea of the momrade

2022 ◽  
pp. 146470012110595
Author(s):  
Sophie A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Kin Relations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
Class Struggles ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Point Of Departure

Today, a new vein of queer Marxist-feminist family-abolitionist theorising is reviving contemporary feminists’ willingness to imagine, politically, what women's liberationists in the 1970s called ‘mothering against motherhood’. Concurrently, the jokey portmanteau ‘momrade’, i.e. mom  +  comrade, has circulated persistently in the twenty-first century on online forums maintained by communities of mothers and/or leftists. This article asks: what if, in the name of abolishing the family, we took the joke entirely seriously? What makes a ‘mom’ a ‘momrade’, or vice versa? In what ways does the work of reproduction, conceivably, actively participate in class struggles, producing new worlds (and un-producing others)? How do the collective arts of mothering unmake selves? And how does the verb ‘to mother’ work to abolish the present state of things? The chosen point of departure for exploring these questions is the concept of xenohospitality; a term I borrow from Helen Hester – one of the authors of the Xenofeminist Manifesto – who defines it as openness to the alien, a definition I link closely to ‘comradeliness’. Further, the meaning of the term ‘family abolition’, here, is aptly summed up by the formula ‘xenofam ≥ biofam’; to abolish the family is not to destroy relationships of care and nurturance, but on the contrary, to expand and proliferate them. Reflecting on the conditions of possibility for such universally xenofamilial – that is to say, comradely – kin relations, this article implicitly argues for utopia(nism) in feminist kinship studies. It grounds this utopianism, however, in first-hand experiences of informal ‘death doula’ labour. The labour of mothering one's mother is offered as a potential practice of un-mothering oneself and others. In fact, the argument pivots on these auto-ethnographic observations about maternal bereavement, because the event of the author's mother's death interrupted and intruded upon the feminist theorising involved.

Waterfront in Despair

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Intestinal Diseases ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The City ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This chapter explains how the twenty-first-century floating pool became an idée fixe for the author. It reviews records and historic newspaper articles that were leading to the demise of the public and private floating baths. It also discusses the pollution in 1907 that had become the major topic for concern as the baths that were founded to clean the great unwashed became a place of accumulating filth. The chapter refers to the Merchants Association of the City of New York that added its voice against polluted baths as it was bothered by any conditions at the commercial waterfront that might deter trade. It mentions the publication of the report “Pollution of New York Harbor as a Menace to Health by the Dissemination of Intestinal Diseases through the Agency of the Common Housefly,” which provided graphic details of what it must have been like to swim in the floating baths.

scholarly journals Catch-up and Mission-oriented Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Mazzucato
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Policy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Social Environmental

Innovation has not only a rate but also a direction: the twenty-first century is becoming increasingly defined by the need to respond to major social, environmental, and economic challenges. This chapter looks at how innovation policy can be reframed around ‘missions’, to guide both innovation policy and industrial strategies around key societal challenges facing countries. This means changing the focus from technologies and sectors to problems that different sectors (across manufacturing and services), actors (public and private), and disciplines are required to solve together. The chapter first reviews the characteristics of mission-oriented programmes before looking at key features of those programmes that can provide lessons.

scholarly journals Quilts: Unfolding personal and public histories in South Africa and the United States

Image & Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha MacDowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Private Collections

Quilts and related textiles are a particularly capacious textile medium through which the intersection of materiality and narratives can be explored. There are thousands of extant historical examples to be found in public and private collections, and the "quilt world" of the early twenty-first century is robust and enormous. There are literally millions of individuals around the globe who are involved in some aspect of quilt production, preservation, and study. This article provides a brief overview of quiltmaking and quilt studies in the United States and in South Africa. It draws upon samples of work from both countries to illustrate how, through their needles and their stories, quilt artists provide unique windows into personal and public histories.

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