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- Title
THE "OPT OUT REVOLUTION" AND THE CHANGING NARRATIVES OF MOTHERHOOD: SELF GOVERNING THE WORK/FAMILY CONFLICT.
- Authors
Cossman, Brenda
- Abstract
The article presents the authors perspectives regarding the Opt Out Revolution, a decision of the upper middle class to urge the professionally trained women to leave the workforce and to stay home to care for their children in the U.S. It focuses on the impact and significance of the opt out phenomena to the changing narratives of motherhood. The author argues that the opt out revolution can be usefully realized in a mode of governance in which subjects are called upon to govern themselves through the choices that they make. She suggests that an effective feminist response to the phenomena is to explore the nuances of how choice affects women's lives, and how it is managed and negotiated.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MOTHERHOOD; MOTHERS -- Social aspects; WOMEN'S rights; FEMINISM; FAMILY relations; FAMILY-work relationship; LEGAL status of women; SOCIAL conditions of women
- Publication
Utah Law Review, 2009, Vol 2009, Issue 2, p455
- ISSN
0042-1448
- Publication type
Article