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Description of  Refiguring the Postmaternal: Feminist Responses to the Forgetting of Motherhood

This book explores the concept of the postmaternal as a response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions for motherhood and responds to Julie Stephens contention that gender-neutral feminism has led to a forgetting of the maternal within feminist memory. In Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, Care (2011) Stephens identifies a significant cultural anxiety about care-giving, nurturing and human dependency she calls postmaternal thinking. Stephens argues that maternal forms of care have been rejected in the public sphere and marginalised to the private domain through an elaborate process of cultural forgetting, in turn contributing to the current dominance of a degendered form of feminism. Read more