| Description |
1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Feminist mothering journeys. Mothering Malaika : thoughts on feminist mothering -- There is no one way to be a parent -- Intuitive feminist parenting -- Feminist parenting : a memoir in motion -- Colouring outside the binary : challenging the imposition of gender binaries on toddlers -- Becoming an African feminist parent -- A Muslim feminist mother -- Parenting across cultures, continents, and generations -- "A young woman's voice does not break, it grows firmer" -- Feminist parenting from the lens of a Muslim woman -- Part II. Parenting is political : of feminist mothers' struggles and resistance. The necessity of rage and the politics of feminist parenting -- Growing into motherhood -- Thinking and practicing parenting : or how to do right by my child ... and me? -- It takes a village, as long as you have one -- Feminism, mothering, and choice -- Feminist parenting : no rock, no egg! -- Liberating one's self : healing and helping others do the same -- "Just wait until they go to school" : autonomy, identity, and feminist parenting in an imperfect society -- Sidestepping the patriarchy : creating in our children a critical feminist consciousness -- Mother of two : reflections on love and loss -- From dreams to action : creating my own happily ever after by choosing to adopt as a young single woman -- Feminism and ecology : a complicated, questionable equation? -- Why I have decided not to parent (and why I won't regret it) -- Part III. Contributions from African feminist fathers and children. What my mom and my daughter taught me -- Feminists opened my eyes -- The struggling feminists -- "Work hard for your little girl" and other dilemmas of feminist tightrope walkers -- Lessons on feminist parenting from my nonfeminist mother -- Afterword |
| Summary |
"Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond asks and considers: What is feminist parenting? Is it something for all parents? What does it mean to be a feminist parent in practice? The collection aims to fill a gap on feminist parenting in the existing literature by bringing timely post-Western perspectives. More specifically, the anthology's main contribution is its explicit focus on feminist parenting from the margins to the global periphery: from Africa and its diaspora, from the Global South to Europe and America. The 27 parents from diverse backgrounds, walks of life and countries gathered in this anthology share powerful responses to the above questions by narrating their experiences of some of the challenges, dilemmas, promises and compromises of parenting with a feminist perspective. The volume is the one of the first collections published with first-person essays describing very touching, beautiful and sometimes painful stories of what it means and more importantly what it costs to become a feminist parent with an intersectional approach. In doing so, the authors of this book aim at (re)claiming parenting as a necessarily political terrain for subversion, radical transformation and resistance to patriarchal oppression and sexism."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Print version record |
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Parenthood.
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Parenthood -- Africa
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Parenting.
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Parenting -- Africa
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Feminism.
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Feminism -- Africa
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Sex role.
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Sex role -- Africa
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Parenting
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Feminism
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Gender Role
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feminism.
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sex role.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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Feminism
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Parenthood
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Parenting
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Sex role
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dieng, Rama Salla, 1986- editor.
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O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781772582765 |
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177258276X |
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