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The Juggling Mother
Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety
Amanda D. Watson (Author)
9780774864626
Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2020
184 pages, 5 b&w photos
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.25 kg
Watson's book is a crucial, nuanced, and astute analysis of the ways in which our current capitalist system is failing mothers. - Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, University of Toronto and Lakehead University (University of Toronto Quarterly)
Who is the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores this 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. Mothers who frantically juggle paid and unpaid work demands do not threaten the way labour is organized. In fact, as Amanda Watson demonstrates, they are model neoliberal workers who uphold white privilege – along with ableist notions of mastery, capacity, and productivity – because of a desire for political visibility and social inclusion. The Juggling Mother makes the controversial case that unfair labour distributions are publicly celebrated, intentionally performed, and intimately felt. Mothers with the most power are thus complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing.
1 Coming Undone 2 The Juggling Mother 3 C-Suite Moms 4 You Are What You Nurse 5 Avoiding Regret 6 Dropping the Ball Notes; Works Cited; Index