Inessential Woman

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Social Issues

 

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Stephanie P

 

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May 8, 2016

 

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University

 

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On page 76, Spelman points out that in speaking to middle class privilege within feminist theory, we remain complicit in calling attention to middle class privilege. Similarly, in the context of my work, Reay, Griffith and Smith address this issue as well and maintain that the discourse of mothering schooling is exclusionary in occluding working class mothers because they are not are not privy to the discourse...
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Thus despite my efforts to call attention to the inequity that is both inherent and consequential of the mothering discourse, I am utilizing the normative of middle class discourse (mothers) to position "others". Similarly, and Spelman addresses this point in chapter 4 as well, I remain troubled by the essentialist constructions of middle class mothers and working class mothers and how, in the scope of my work, to address differences within those categories without writing from the standpoint of or comparison to middle class women? How can I address the mothering discourse without falling into the conundrums of creating an essentialist working class "woman" or middle class woman? I struggled with writing of middle class and working class mothers without specifically addressing race, sexuality, etc...
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