Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses interviews and personal letters, talk show transcripts, organizational newsletters and a survey of postpartum group leaders to illuminate conflicts played out in the arena of women's self-help.
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succeeds beautifully...provides an intriguing look at group dynamics and gender politics. -- Wendy Simonds, Signs
Rock-a-by-Baby is a moving story grounded in women's experience of postpartum depression. It is also an insightful analysis of new social movements and feminism in late-twentieth-century America. Verta Taylor links the personal and the political in rich sociological and feminist tradition. And she does so wonderfully. -- Political Processes
Rock-a-by Baby is feminist sociology at its best. -- Barrie Thorne, University of California, Berkeley
Taylor skillfully combines the concept of women's culture from feminist gender studies and the social construction of postpartum depression by patients, physicians, and psychiatrists. She traces the complexities and contradictions in this ultimately political discourse in an original and widely applicable framework that expands social movement theory and feminist theory. -- Judith Lorber, CUNY
Framed against the background of her own experience with depression, the author uses survivor narratives in order to elucidate poignant aspects of her study. . . Taylor wants us to look at the disparity between what we believe should be the feelings of new mothers and the actual feelings expressed by women suffering from postpartum depression. . . Overall, this is an informative look at postpartum depression self-help groups. -- Kathleen Sorenson, Assoc. for Research on Mothering, York University, Canada
Rock-a-by-Baby is a moving story grounded in women's experience of postpartum depression. It is also an insightful analysis of new social movements and feminism in late-twentieth-century America. Verta Taylor links the personal and the political in rich sociological and feminist tradition. And she does so wonderfully. -- Political Processes
Rock-a-by-Baby is a moving story grounded in women's experience of postpartum depression. It is also an insightful analysis of new social movements and feminism in late-twentieth-century America. Verta Taylor links the personal and the political in rich sociological and feminist tradition. And she does so wonderfully. -- Political Processes
Rock-a-by Baby is feminist sociology at its best. -- Barrie Thorne, University of California, Berkeley
Taylor skillfully combines the concept of women's culture from feminist gender studies and the social construction of postpartum depression by patients, physicians, and psychiatrists. She traces the complexities and contradictions in this ultimately political discourse in an original and widely applicable framework that expands social movement theory and feminist theory. -- Judith Lorber, CUNY
Framed against the background of her own experience with depression, the author uses survivor narratives in order to elucidate poignant aspects of her study. . . Taylor wants us to look at the disparity between what we believe should be the feelings of new mothers and the actual feelings expressed by women suffering from postpartum depression. . . Overall, this is an informative look at postpartum depression self-help groups. -- Kathleen Sorenson, Assoc. for Research on Mothering, York University, Canada
Rock-a-by-Baby is a moving story grounded in women's experience of postpartum depression. It is also an insightful analysis of new social movements and feminism in late-twentieth-century America. Verta Taylor links the personal and the political in rich sociological and feminist tradition. And she does so wonderfully. -- Political Processes
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Verta Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. She is the co-author of Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s, and co-editor of Feminist Frontiers.
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ASK ALMOST any English-speaking American what lullabies she knows and the answer is likely to be "Rock-a-by, Baby." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postpartum support movement, postpartum movement, postpartum illness, postpartum depression movement, support group movement, personalized political strategies, postpartum psychiatric conditions, postpartum psychiatric illness, postpartum support groups, therapeutic feminism, telephone volunteers, postpartum disorders, postpartum psychiatric disorders, organizational files, puerperal insanity, peer hospital, antirape movement, postpartum conditions, social movement scholars, survivor narratives, consensus movements, postpartum psychosis, warm line, gender status quo, social movement communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Depression After Delivery, Jane Honikman, United States, Dagmar Celeste, Nancy Berchtold, African American, Postpartum Support International, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Santa Barbara, Carol Dix, New Jersey, Phil Donahue Show, Karen Mumford, San Diego, Anthony Giddens, Equal Rights Amendment, Margery Kempe, Nancy Whittier, National Institute of Mental Health, Our Bodies, Robert Wuthnow, Angela Thompson, Ann Landers, Glenn Comitz, Native American New!
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ASK ALMOST any English-speaking American what lullabies she knows and the answer is likely to be "Rock-a-by, Baby." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postpartum support movement, postpartum movement, postpartum illness, postpartum depression movement, support group movement, personalized political strategies, postpartum psychiatric conditions, postpartum psychiatric illness, postpartum support groups, therapeutic feminism, telephone volunteers, postpartum disorders, postpartum psychiatric disorders, organizational files, puerperal insanity, peer hospital, antirape movement, postpartum conditions, social movement scholars, survivor narratives, consensus movements, postpartum psychosis, warm line, gender status quo, social movement communities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Depression After Delivery, Jane Honikman, United States, Dagmar Celeste, Nancy Berchtold, African American, Postpartum Support International, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Santa Barbara, Carol Dix, New Jersey, Phil Donahue Show, Karen Mumford, San Diego, Anthony Giddens, Equal Rights Amendment, Margery Kempe, Nancy Whittier, National Institute of Mental Health, Our Bodies, Robert Wuthnow, Angela Thompson, Ann Landers, Glenn Comitz, Native American New!
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- Frontiers in Social Movement Theory by Assoc. Professor Aldon D. Morris on 7 pages
- New Social Movements: From Ideology to Identity by Enrique Larana on 4 pages
- Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency (Perspectives on Gender) by Evelyn Nakano Glenn on 4 pages
- Pregnancy and Childbirth by Tracy Hotchner on page 41, page 54, and Back Matter
- New Mother Syndrome by Dix on page 250, page 75, and page 80
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- The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression by Natasha S. Mauthner on 7 pages
- Stepping Out of Line: Becoming and Being a Feminist (Perspectives on Gender) by Cheryl Hercus on 5 pages
- Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life by Micki McGee on 5 pages
- Mothers and Children: Feminist Analyses and Personal Narratives by Susan E. Chase in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity by Joshua Gamson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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