Social Science Women's Studies
The Juggling Mother
Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2020
- Category
- Women's Studies, Marriage & Family, Feminism & Feminist Theory
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774864640
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $27.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774864619
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $75.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774864626
- Publish Date
- Sep 2020
- List Price
- $27.95
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Description
Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores the figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours. More troublingly, she also serves as a model neoliberal worker who upholds white privilege and notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity. Amanda Watson makes the controversial case that mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.
About the author
Amanda Watson is assistant professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University.
Editorial Reviews
Watson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers.
University of Toronto Quarterly
