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Article: Silences and choice: the legacies of white second wave feminism in the new professoriate.(Essay)
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- Women's Studies in Communication
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Sociologist Sharon Hays coined the term intensive mothering and argues that it is an ideology of child rearing that "requires not only large quantities of money but also professional-level skills and copious amounts of physical, moral, mental, and emotional energy on the part of the individual mother [and] is a relatively recent historical phenomenon" (4). Feminist academics (Douglas and Michaels; Hays; O'Reilly) argue that it rests on at least three core beliefs: 1) children need and require constant and ongoing nurturing by their biological mothers who are single-handedly responsible for meeting these needs; 2) in meeting those needs, mothers must rely on experts to ...