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Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy

Women and Children First: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy

Diquinzio, Patrice
Meagher, Sharon M.

Hardcover

Series: Suny Gender Theory

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 079146539X
ISBN13: 9780791465394
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Aug 18 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A critique of public policy rhetoric from multiple feminist perspectives.

This diverse collection explores the rhetoric of a wide range of public policies that propose to put women and children first, including homeland security, school violence, gun control, medical intervention of intersex infants, and policies that aim to distinguish good from bad mothers. Using various feminist philosophical analyses, the contributors uncover a logic of paternalistic treatment of women and children that purports to protect them but almost always also disempowers them and sometimes harms them. This logic is widespread in contemporary popular policy discourse and affects the way that people understand and respond to social and political issues. Contributors rethink basic philosophical assumptions concerning subjectivity, difference, and dualistic logic in order to read the rhetoric of contemporary public policy discourse and develop new ways of talking and acting in the policy domain.

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