There's No Place Like the Childcare Center: A Feminist Analysis of &lt;Home&gt; in the World War II Era

Enoch, Jessica

doi:10.1080/07350198.2012.711199

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“…Enoch (2012) reaffirms the gendered and patriarchal view of motherhood as a social institution in the United States in her treatise regarding WWII working mothers. Similarly, Hays (1996) describes a dominant, white, middle-class model of childrearing THE SPOCKIAN MOTHER that prescribes a set of standards for mothers which will fortify their "good mother" statuses.…”

Section: An Ideological Approach To the Construction Of Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–1992

Dobris

White-Mills

Davidson

et al. 2016

Communication Quarterly

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Dr. Spock's, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, one of the best-selling self-help texts of all-time, "second only to the Bible in popularity" (Meakin & Tattersall, 2004) was one of the most influential childcare books in American culture. The author has been both heralded and disparaged as instrumental in the shaping of untold generations. In the present study, we address the rhetorical construction of the Spockian Mother as she is developed during Spock's tenure from 1946-1992. We employ a feminist rhetorical perspective to examine the progression of Spock's texts in order to understand how patriarchal images of motherhood are constructed and maintained through Spock's lifetime and the first 46 years of its publication. We argue that Spock both reinforced and challenged the institution of motherhood; he challenged institutionalized motherhood by encouraging mothers to "trust themselves" while simultaneously conforming to a patriarchal model of motherhood which is at odds with empowered mothering.

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Section: An Ideological Approach To the Construction Of Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–1992

Dobris

White-Mills

Davidson

et al. 2016

Communication Quarterly

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“…The unparalleled attention given to ECEC services, nursery places, and choices has roots in the Second World War, when mothers' participation in the labor market increased. At this time, nursery places were expanded due to the demands of the war economy, which meant that old prejudices about what females could and should do were cast aside in the name of patriotism (Enoch, 2012). As a result, the situation in which mothers found themselves left them with less time to care for their children.…”

Section: History Of the Early Childhood Education And Care Policies I...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy and Governmentality of Early Childhood Education and Care in England

Mikuska¹

2023

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This paper provides an overview and investigates the English Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policy landscape. It introduces the political and ECEC policy history, and the development of the statutory Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (DfE, 2021) framework, whose publication in 2008 was a significant milestone in ECEC in England. Twenty-two nursery workers from a variety of nursery settings were interviewed to learn what they think, know, and how this policy influences their professional practices. Foucault’s (1988) and Dean’s (1999) idea of ‘governmentality’ was used to analyze the data, as governmentality offers a way to create critical analyses of the ECEC policy that affects young children. The analysis recognizes the nursery worker's strong and often stressful relationship with government policy and highlights how policy documents mandated their work. The study also reveals that despite government regulations and guidance, most of the participants decide to continue with their professional development and enrol to study for a higher education degree.

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“…For example, Hayden () and(Langford () explore the changing and partisan rhetorical evocation of the ideographs <choice> and <life> and <person> within the reproductive rights campaigns in the United States. Palczewski () explores the visual ideographs depicted with anti‐suffrage postcards, while Enoch () and Mastrangelo () investigated the differing uses of <home> and <motherhood> in changing and promoting women's attitudes, beliefs and actions. Cloud's (, p. 286) exploration of <clash of civilizations> within the imagery of the US war with Afghanistan argued that the visual and verbal articulation of the ideograph created a binary between the white modern western self and the abject foreign other; this evoked a paternalistic sentiment towards women and a presentation of modernity as liberation that functioned as a form of justificatory rhetoric for the war.…”

Section: Ideographic Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberal feminism: The neoliberal rhetoric on feminism by Australian political actors

Colley

White

2018

Gender Work & Organization

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Feminism seems to be experiencing a resurgence. This research examines an Australian case where this resurgence produces some bizarre outcomes and an uncomfortable mix of moderate and neoliberal feminisms, as conservative women distance themselves from the term feminist and conservative men embrace it. We rhetorically analyse the discourse of four conservative leaders using an ideographic analysis to reveal how political actors evoke ideologically laden terminology to support specific courses of action.For the conservative women, the ideograph feminist was too heavily laden with history. A more feminine-liberal political discourse allowed them to explain their own success in individual terms and, by substituting support for feminism with a broader gender equality agenda, they could explain the government's policy approach of individualized rather than collective or state support to advance the needs of women. They are articulating a postfeminism sensibility themselves and neoliberal feminist other. For the conservative men, the ideograph feminist did not reflect on their own personal success or careers; they were happy to embrace it for purely political purposes to advance their standing with the voting public and saw no significance in terms of the government's policy approach of neoliberal feminism.

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There's No Place Like the Childcare Center: A Feminist Analysis of <Home> in the World War II Era

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–1992

The Spockian Mother: Images of the “Good” Mother in Dr. Spock’s The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, 1946–1992

Policy and Governmentality of Early Childhood Education and Care in England

Neoliberal feminism: The neoliberal rhetoric on feminism by Australian political actors

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