Toward Defining Maternalism in U.S. History

Ladd-Taylor, Molly

doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0401

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“…In their visions for the future, the women justify their inclusion in governance because of their gendered urban experience and gendered claims to being more caring about the city and its inhabitants. A feminist ethics of care deliberately politicizes the caring associated with women's social productive roles, where women combine ‘their motherhood rhetoric with progressive appeals to justice and democracy’ (Ladd‐Taylor, : 111). As explained by Busola: ‘[by] taking care of children, you know, you should be able to know how to take care of the society you know the way you take good care of your children, you will take good care of [the city]’ (interview, 28 June 2011).…”

Section: Owambe Urbanism and Wilful/killjoy Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria

Ogunyankin¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Ibadan, Nigeria, has been an outlier in the ranking of world‐class cities. But in the past seven years, amidst the circulating Africa Rising narrative, Ibadan has embarked on what I call an Afropolitan Imagineering project of owambe urbanism. Afropolitan Imagineering refers to the production of new images/narratives of Africa and Africans as world‐class and cosmopolitan. Owambe urbanism is a spatio‐temporal neoliberal project concerning destination, arrival and place‐making, which promises a shared and happy future for all urban dwellers. I argue that this promise of happiness is challenged by low‐income women who are cognizant that a shared and happy future is impossible when little effort is made to address social inequality in the present. They thus refuse to be ‘good’ citizens and invoke an alternative urban futurity through their embodied and imagined resistance.

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Section: Owambe Urbanism and Wilful/killjoy Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria

Ogunyankin¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Hence, to testify about matters that impacted her public role as well as the roles filled by other women Board members, Lathrop employed equal-rights feminism. Yet Lathrop is acclaimed for her later work to secure federal women's and children's services, and to this end she simultaneously embraced the maternalist argument that women were innately capable of nurturing and raising children (Ladd-Taylor, 1993). Also apparent in Lathrop's testimonial is the connection between her equal-rights-informed method and Johnson's discourse.…”

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“The Mother State and Her Weaker Children”

Yingling

2016

Affilia

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In the United States, the institutionalization of people labeled feebleminded gained significant momentum during the Progressive Era. In this article, I use a biographical approach to examine social work's role in the expansion of institutions for this population. I employ feminist standpoint theory to detail how the profession used its dominant standpoint-maternalism-as a political strategy to justify the segregation of people labeled feebleminded. Implications for future scholarship and for social work are presented.

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“…These portrayals evoked and drew upon socially and historically constituted gender roles, in which women are constituted as nurturers of the family Ladd-Taylor, 1993;Jetter et al, 1997). They also reinforced the idea that individual behavior in the household was a legitimate concern of the Block Clubs organization, and essential to neighborhood well-being.…”

Section: Gendering Of Organizational Agenda and Discoursementioning

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“…The second theme evident in TDBC discourse was concern for children and families (Paulson, 1995, p. 5;TDBC Reporter, 1995a, p. 11;1995b, p. 11;TDBC Reporter, 1996b). The maternal obligation to care for children is a common and dominant cultural theme in the USA, one with which residents of Thomas-Dale would be familiar Ladd-Taylor, 1993). The organizational references to children evoked motherhood, although they could have also functioned as a call to fathers to act in their community (as in TDBC Reporter, 1995a, p. 11).…”

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Constructing the ‘Neighborhood Sphere’: Gender and Community organizing [1]

Martin¹

2002

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article examines organizing styles and issues in neighborhood activism to illustrate how activists seek to constitute a neighborhood community. It identi es the ways in which community organizing is gendered in both style and content, often separating 'women's' and 'men's' issues along an arti cial public-private divide. This research illustrates, however, how neighborhood activists can use and challenge gendered forms of activism to integrate both public and private into an ideal of a neighborhood community. Using a case study of the Thomas-Dale Block Clubs in St Paul, Minnesota, the article examines how residents use gender-essentializing discourses of safety and parenting to insert household and family issues into a broader community arena. Further, it identi es how these discourses overlay cultural tensions in a diverse neighborhood. The activism in the block club organization studied here re ects a wide variety of community organizing strategies and concerns, focusing on de ning and creating a neighborhood public sphere, to which, as the organization argued, every resident ought to be responsible and accountable.

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Toward Defining Maternalism in U.S. History

Cited by 24 publications

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‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria

‘The City of Our Dream’: Owambe Urbanism and Low‐income Women's Resistance in Ibadan, Nigeria

“The Mother State and Her Weaker Children”

Constructing the ‘Neighborhood Sphere’: Gender and Community organizing [1]

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