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Assignment:
Please make sure to factcheck before submitting the answer for increased accuracy! Thanks! ? From your reading of Chapter 1 in Interrogating Motherhood, prepare brief responses to the following questions:
1. Is the study of motherhood important? Why?
2. What are some of the dominant discourses that have shaped mothering practice?
3. What are some of the primary factors that contribute to how women are able to mother?
From your reading of Chapter 2 in Interrogating Motherhood, prepare brief responses to the following questions:
1. In what ways do ideas about maternal instinct inform understandings about mothering?
2. What role has attachment theory played in setting historical and contemporary standards for the "good mother"?
3. How are representations of the "good mother" from theory and the popular media related?
4. Who (or what) benefits and who (or what) are disadvantaged by "good mother" discourses?
From your reading of Chapter 3 in Motherhood and Feminism, prepare brief responses to the following questions:
1. What factors, according to Kinser, informed the good/bad mother dualism during the postwar years?
2. What factors influenced mothering practice during the sixties?
3. How did feminist activism and writing during the seventies impact understandings about motherhood and mothering practice?