Confronting Postmaternal Thinking : : Feminism, Memory, and Care / / Julie Stephens.
There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subject...
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