'Neoliberal motherhood': Workplace lactation and changing conceptions of working motherhood in the contemporary US

被引:22
作者
Boyer, Kate [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
关键词
Breast pumps; breastfeeding; neoliberalism; wage-work; care-work relations; working motherhood; BREAST-MILK; POLITICS; WELFARE; CARE;
D O I
10.1177/1464700114545321
中图分类号
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要
Through an analysis of policy texts, population statistics, and the popular press, this article advances knowledge about working motherhood in the contemporary US and proposes a refinement to how wage-work/care-work relations are conceptualised. I focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011 which grants certain rights and protections to women seeking to combine lactation with wage-work. I argue that this policy represents a form of work-life integration that is particularly burdensome for working mothers, and that expectations relating to working motherhood in the contemporary US are being reshaped around the demands of neoliberalism, producing what I term neoliberal motherhood'. I assert that this policy represents a way of combining wage-work and care-work that is not captured within existing conceptualisations, and suggest that a re-working of theory in this area is needed to address cases in which embodied care-work is enfolded within the time and space of wage-work.
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页码:269 / 288
页数:20
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