Mothering, Love, and Labor: New Feminist Perspectives

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) sponsored roundtable builds on recent advances in feminist scholarship on economics, labor, and motherhood. We interrogate love and labor from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and institutional locations, including bloggers who write about improving work culture for mothers (askmoxie.org and mitacoach.wordpress.com), and as well as new scholarship on ideologies of caregiving and labor related to biological motherhood as the only “real” choice for women and in intensive mothering, the invisibility of stepmothers’ labor, and needed historical context for the legacies motherhood as profession stemming from the fin de siècle.

Sub Unit

• General Conference / Theme 4: Love and Labor

Moderator

• Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, University of Michigan

Presenters

• Magda Pecsenye, Tilmor Group

• Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, University of Michigan

• Kirsti Cole, Minnesota State University

• Roksana Badruddoja, Manhattan College

• Melissa Purdue, Minnesota State University