Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children

Hollingworth, Leta S.

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“…In the excerpts above, the desire to have children assumed the feature of an instinctual and universal experience for women to the point that, for Luisa, if she did not feel it, this was because something was wrong with her, like selfishness or irresponsibility. In many cases, the groups constructed motherhood as the most obvious fulfillment for women, and their maternal desire is the main engine for building a family, thus supporting the social device already identified by Hollingworth (1916) that created the ideal of a "normal woman" who wants to be a mother as a form of social control. In some participants' views, motherhood emerged as a primary role for women, and a woman who does not want to be a mother is "other" to this accepted/expected female norm (Letherby, 2002).…”

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Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Homonormative Discourses of LGBTQ Activists About Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Lasio

Serri

Ibba

et al. 2018

Journal of Homosexuality

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LGBTQ activists have a crucial role in fighting sexuality-based discrimination. However, homonormativity can lead activists to adhere to hegemonic heteronormativity, thus threatening their efforts to widen the concept of family. Drawing on the Gramscian notion of hegemony, this article analyzes the notion of heteronormativity and its homonormative facet as a form of hegemony that impacts activists, sustaining the premises of heteronormativity and seeking inclusion within such norms. This research investigates the hegemonic heteronormative assumptions that endure in the discourses of Italian LGBTQ activists when they talk about lesbian and gay parenting. Findings highlight the presence of heteronormative traces in their discourses, namely in terms of access to reproduction, the parents' place within the regime of gender, and the right standards for child rearing. Hegemonic heteronormativity appears in multiform ways, and as largely consensual even to those it more directly oppresses, making it difficult to detect and therefore to deconstruct.

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confidence: 87%

Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Homonormative Discourses of LGBTQ Activists About Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Lasio

Serri

Ibba

et al. 2018

Journal of Homosexuality

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“…Fully 90 years ago, in the pages of the American Journal of Sociology, feminist Hollingworth argued ironically that subjugation of women was necessary to sustain a viable birth rate [22]. Short of re-imposing gender-based inequality in laws and in the marketplace, what moderate measures could possibly bolster fertility?…”

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Demographic collapse

Bainbridge

2009

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“…[and] all data presuppose interpretation" (p. 130). Historically, interpretation of psychological data, including data from and about women, has been undertaken from a masculinist perspective, and the contributions of feminist psychologists, which are virtually as old as the discipline itself (e.g., Calkins, 1896;Hollingworth, 1914Hollingworth, , 1916Thompson, 1903), have been neglected. The dominant masculinist discourse in psychology, therefore, has historically overshadowed feminist discourse.…”

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B. F. Skinner's Radical Behaviorism: Historical Misconstructions and Grounds for Feminist Reconstructions

Ruiz

1995

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Feminist critiques of traditional psychological approaches have generated feminist revisions, most notably in psychoanalytic and develop mental theory. Although behaviorism has attracted strong objections from feminist critics, claims of its antithetical positioning vis‐à‐vis feminist theory construction have generally remained unchallenged. A preliminary step in formulating grounds for a synthesis is to clarify multiple meanings of behaviorism. Specifically, the fusion of Watson's methodological behaviorism and Skinner's radical behaviorism in the literature must be disentangled in order to address the latter's potential as a conceptual framework for constructing feminist theory. Key conceptual features of radical behaviorism that suggest its potential as a vehicle for building a feminist epistemology include: radical behaviorism's contextualistic world view, its interpretation of agency, its treatment of private experience and self knowledge, and its understanding of the pivotal functions of the verbal community.

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Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children

Abstract: Again, the breeding function of the family would be better discharged if public opinion and religion conspired, as they have until recently, to crush the aspirations of woman for a life of her own. But the gain would not be worth the price."-E. A. Ross, Social Control (I904).

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Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Homonormative Discourses of LGBTQ Activists About Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Hegemony and Heteronormativity: Homonormative Discourses of LGBTQ Activists About Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Demographic collapse

B. F. Skinner's Radical Behaviorism: Historical Misconstructions and Grounds for Feminist Reconstructions

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