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Book Announcement by Petra Beuskens<\/strong> (Australia)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated \u2018double shift\u2019 that result in widespread calls to either \u2018lean in\u2019 or \u2018opt out\u2019? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and maternal selves?<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Modern Motherhood and Women\u2019s Dual Identities<\/em>, published by Routledge, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernization consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her groundbreaking formulation is that western women are free as \u2018individuals\u2019 yet constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter.<\/p>\n

Drawing on political philosophy, feminist theory and sociology, Bueskens\u2019 theoretical contribution consists of the identification and analysis of modern women\u2019s duality, tracking the changing nature of discourses of women, freedom and motherhood across three centuries. While the current literature points to the pervasiveness of contradiction and double shifts for mothers, very little attention has been paid to how (some) women are subverting contradiction and \u2018rewriting the sexual contract.\u2019 Bridging this gap, Bueskens\u2019 interviews ten \u2018revolving mothers\u2019 to reveal how periodic absence, exceeding the standard workday, disrupts the default position assigned to mothers in the home, and in turn disrupts the gendered dynamics of household work.<\/p>\n

A provocative and original work,\u00a0Modern Motherhood and Women\u2019s Dual Identities<\/em>\u00a0will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Women and Gender Studies, Sociology of Motherhood and Social and Political Theory.<\/p>\n

PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE<\/strong>
\nCHAPTER 1: Introduction
\nCHAPTER 2: Methodology
\nPART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT\u00a0<\/strong>
\nCHAPTER 3: The social and sexual contracts
\nCHAPTER 4: The invention of motherhood and the \u2018new woman\u2019: 1750-1920
\nCHAPTER 5: What is the new sexual contract?
\nPART THREE: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH<\/strong>
\nCHAPTER 6: Becoming a mother: or, revisiting the sexual contract
\nCHAPTER 7: Leaving the default position in the home
\nCHAPTER 8: Reconstructing the sexual contract
\nPART FOUR: CONCLUSION<\/strong>
\nCHAPTER 9: Concluding the contract: women in the twenty-first century<\/p>\n

\u00a0https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Modern-Motherhood-and-Womens-Dual-Identities-Rewriting-the-Sexual-Contract\/Bueskens\/p\/book\/9781138677425<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr\u00a0Petra Bueskens\u00a0<\/strong>is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, a psychotherapist in private practice and a freelance writer. She has published articles in\u00a0New Matilda, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, Haaretz, Arena Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0OnLineOpinion<\/em>. Her books include\u00a0Mothering and Psychoanalysis <\/em>(2014), Modern Motherhood and Women\u2019s Dual<\/em>\u00a0Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract<\/em>\u00a0(2018) and the forthcoming co-edited books:\u00a0Nancy Chodorow and The Reproduction of Mothering: 40 Years On<\/em>\u00a0(2019) and\u00a0Mothering Australia<\/em>\u00a0(2019).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Petra Bueskens, PhD<\/strong>
\nSchool of Social and Political Sciences \/ Faculty of Arts
\nThe University of Melbourne
\nVictoria, Australia
\nEmail Petra Bueskens<\/a><\/p>\n

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